How To Use Ruck In A Sentence

If head-to-toe leopard seems a bit too Big Cat Diary to appeal, then a waterproof rucksack or bumbag in the same print are an easy way to add a distinctive touch to a more classic outfit. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
He says the briefcase is impractical: A lot of other people in our office use rucksacks because they cycle to work. Briefcases are the new suspenders | clusterflock
But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
She was struck dumb at the news.

He died after his van crashed into a rubbish truck.
I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
Two fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters were last night battling to extinguish the blaze. Times, Sunday Times
In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
Two separate guys (guy in trucker hat who I think is the liquid metal Terminator/Davey Scantino) and the other is Bathroom-Using Man who wore no cap. Matthew Yglesias » Anticlimax
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
`I think with the ruckus some cove's made off with it, your worship. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
Selling alcohol at truck stops is an unnecessary temptation for drivers.
He struck out for the dry ground of fact, and stated it in prose Swift would have been proud of. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The truck dumped the coal on the ground.
A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
Giving the driver a nod, the truck gunned it, and sped back onto the more secure skidder tail.
In Belgium, 2,500 truckers, taxi drivers and tour bus operators staged a protest on Sunday in Brussels.
The first English gold coin was struck in 1255.
Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria. Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border
A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water.
For the first time that day, a thought suddenly struck him.
Enemies struck by gunfire don't just fall over backwards; they jet blood like the lawn sprinkler in Hell, then collapse into a heap.
He struck me as a sincere and romantic person that hadn't had the chance to find love and instead had enjoyed the attention the women had lavished on him.
In the Weber test, the tuning fork is struck and placed on the midline of the forehead, the nasal bridge, or the chin.
Then the truck roared down the road, crashed into the ranks, turned over and hit a tree. Times, Sunday Times
There's a huge shortage of truckers, so a drive has begun to recruit women drivers.
What has really struck me is the amazing contrast between events far away and events close to home.
The bond struck between these ambitious men was to endure.
Yesterday's quake struck along the same 'ring of fire' faultline that caused the 2004 disaster. Times, Sunday Times
The band struck up a tango.
When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.
I have struck up conversations with numerous people who know the name of my dog but not mine. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
The driver ran a stop light and broadsided the truck.
Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
Following the impact, the truck careened into the eastbound lane of Highway 52, directly towards an oncoming van.
Her pedestrian, low-brow, unperceptive prose has struck a chord with the so-bad-it's-good brigade.
There was Mr Fox and his trucks carting coal from the pitheads and they were held not to be in the coalmining industry.
They already had been supporting other unions by refusing to back their trucks up to supermarket loading docks.
The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.
In two cases, courts have struck down such laws, but these cases seem aberrational.
At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
For the past five years I have been a regular attendant at the Algico Primary Schools Sports and the lack of parental support has always struck me.
Not for the first time it struck Buncan that Clothahump went through famuli the way an echidna went through termites. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
The teacher struck the child
It showed two white police pickup trucks, with large bullbars on the front bumpers, plowing separately into a group of protesters. SeMissourian.com Headlines
Mortars are also employed, but are done so from a truck platform, or if dismounted, are dismounted quickly and only long enough to drop rounds and then remount the truck and exfiltrate.
It was designed by a professional medalist named John Woodhouse Jnr and struck by West & Co of Belfast.
The movers will move it, and I could care less how they go about hoisting it out of the room and onto their truck.
He told how he was stopped behind a tipper truck with his handbrake on when he heard brakes screeching.
The church clock struck midnight.
I was struck by the similarity of displays on many of their office pinboards.
The greatest threats to marine mammals are being caught in fishing nets or being struck by shipping vessels, although for the Yangtze river dolphin, pollution is a major contributor.
They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins
I'm not going to name our guests, because I don't want them to be associated with this place, and because a man whom I assume was the owner made such an oleaginous, starstruck fool of himself.
Then it struck her that he was in a state of deep abstraction. COME AND BE KILLED
Obviously, if the legislation is struck down or the regulations have to be amended, then that gives further weight to the compensation claim because we will be able to claim that our rights were breached.
At the nearby aquarium, the children were awestruck by the different kinds of fish.
The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
A sport utility vehicle, or SUV is a passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon.
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire. Times, Sunday Times
But well before the latest murderers struck — well before another "antigovernment" Obama hater went on a cop-killing rampage in Pittsburgh in April — there have been indications that this rage could spiral out of control. Frank rich on fox news, responsibility and domestic terrorism
The thing that struck us in doing the Levitical month was the simple power of obedience," Harrell said in a recent interview. Cathleen Falsani: Living Leviticus: Who Could Do It? Who Would Want To?
She swung the truck off the highway and angled it between the pale green signs to rattle over the cattle guard. The Man From High Mountain
The stone struck her on the forehead.
We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
It also plans to introduce more heavily armoured trucks. Times, Sunday Times
In what was said to be a signed confession he admitted carrying the rucksack containing explosives but insisted he never intended to kill anyone.
Even the situation with Morgan LeFay had not struck such terror into the creature.
They barely gave me a nod when I poked my head up over the side of the truck.
At the same time, parts of southern England were struck by a freak ice storm that encased the landscape in thick ice. Times, Sunday Times
The voice struck a golden tone inside Doune's heart, and his insides melted.
My wife calls those jacked-up monstrosities aka “mosnter trucks” on the public roads that are obviously never going to even come within sight of a mud puddle “penis substitutes.” EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - “Save the clock tower!”
Her car bumped a truck.
The ruckus at the door had focused itself into one six-foot hurricane that was headed straight Molly's way. BAD MEDICINE
I was struck by a number of interesting points about this spiked-debate so far.
The orchestra struck up a military march.
As I trolled back and forth in the microfiche looking for the relevant piece, I was struck by the other things the chattering classes brayed five years ago.
Educators help set education policy, mortgage lenders influence housing policies, truckers influence highway regulation, and so on.
The man said that he wanted the house and that he could offer a generous inducement if a deal had already been struck. Times, Sunday Times
One family was loading kitchen cabinets, a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.
She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her.
Arriving at Town Lake for the first time, I was struck by the natural beauty of this dammed section of the Colorado river.
High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told.
Big vehicles like buses and trucks must move into the extreme left lane.
It was a good thing Mrs. Scott's mom was so involved with her son, or else she'd have noticed the horror-struck expression on my face.
The truck's ground clearance, the distance between the road and its chassis, is 8.2 inches. A short story about reaching lofty heights
Obviously, at some point in his life Shakespeare fell in love with the language, the acting, the exhilaration of the theater; in a phrase, he became stage-struck.
Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander): Just before the show begins, neglects to put on one of his ridiculous trucker caps and accidentally slaps some deely boppers on his head instead. '30 Rock' live: What could possibly go wrong?
Here we discuss an accident that occurred in a warehouse due to the negligence of a forklift truck driver.
And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music.
Yet despite the fact that he was often referred to as homely or even ugly, Maureen was struck by how absolutely beautiful he was. The Poet Prince
Yet unlike so many star-struck kids, Kylie had the connections to make her daydreams happen.
Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
Full of comments about how awful our heavy rucksacks had been. Times, Sunday Times
He successfully stood off her heavy blows struck by his match.
No one can fail to be struck by the vibrancy of New York.
We decided that in the future, when a truck returned from a pickup, we would put all the boxes in a temporary holding area marked by a cone.
Cars, trucks and buses produce exhaust nearly as harmful as the factories.
The idea came to him that he must do something more than usual to attract the attention of God, and he turned back the rug which was in front of his bed so that he could kneel on the bare boards; and then it struck him that his nightshirt was a softness that might displease his Maker, so he took it off and said his prayers naked. Of Human Bondage
In the US Supreme Court, this law would be struck down as being unconstitutional.
This fragile monster truck of booze and soft drugs eventually careened off the road.
She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals.
The visiting pack were in awesome form, consistently making ground at the edges of the rucks and gradually wearing down the home eight, who by the end resembled a bunch of bedraggled and punch-drunk boxers.
Watching the top downhillers, you are struck by their size: they tend to be big, muscular and solid.
The bullet struck the cement wall starring.
a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
One of the oldest uses for praseodymium is in the manufacture of misch metal, a pyrophoric metal (a metal that gives sparks when struck) used to make lighter flints and tracer bullets.
The Santa Monica iteration of this summer staple is one of the most budget-conscious ones at $40 (proceeds benefit the Special Olympics), but if you want to go even lower there's the $5 Thrillist food truck rally in Hollywood (proceeds benefit Meals on Wheels). Your Weekend To Do-List: Block Party, Blaxploitation, & Beer
Just as she darted into the shadows, her dark cloak billowing behind her, showing a flash of crimson, a loud ruckus came from the front door.
Similarly, third-party carriers are in a better position to reduce "deadhead" travel, which is any travel by trucks when they are empty. Crude Calculations
At around the same time engineers struck and formed a workers' committee which spread its influence to other industrial centres.
Overseas manufacturers dominate in car sales, while U.S. companies have been stronger in the light truck segment. Cars outsold trucks 2-1 under the "clunker" initiative.
He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers.
For centuries their unmistakable sound has struck fear into Scotland's enemies and so become a symbol of its national identity. Times, Sunday Times
Good Earth is so successful it's bulging inside and out, with delivery trucks jockeying for space in the alley and customers from afar lined up to park.
The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags. Times, Sunday Times
The sound team sit in the same truck as the director, monitoring the presenter's and guest's sound levels
Irish exporters, shipping companies and road hauliers have campaigned for the height restriction to be lifted to accommodate all trucks entering the country through Dublin Port.
But truckers say those with new or retrofitted vehicles are a minority. Houston Chronicle
Finnegan howled and spluttered in inebriate rage, then sank back in his seat and stared up at Arabella with a kind of awestruck respect. Salvage for the Saint
It should not be confused with night terrors or panics, in which a child becomes acutely agitated and terror-struck at night, appearing to be awake while in fact asleep and unable to be woken.
After strapping the shoes securely to my feet, I ran down the stairs and to my black truck.
The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need. Finnegans Wake
I saw a report on CNN where a woman was rescued from being trapped in collapsed roof and wall debris for two days and what struck me was her odd calm as she was carried prone from a certain, crushing death — as well as her matter-of-fact confidence in a God that Robertson says her people forsook ... Archive 2010-02-01
Lanz was struck silent, and then socked Felix in the shoulder.
Finally, Ankiel struck Perez out on another curve.
Suddenly, a thought struck her, and she reached up to lift the cover off the urn.
The guitar - at least if the player picks, rather than strums - always struck me as temperamental an instrument as the French horn, even under the hands of a decent executant.
The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
They weren't bad, but struck me as doodles, sketch book observations that have their own merit but lack a certain oomph.
Being "gassed" means being struck by a cup or bag containing feces and urine. The Prison-Industrial Complex
The supply truck tows a water trailer and carries full water cans for direct exchange.
My new truck drives well
She had been struck over the head with a blunt object. The Sun
They had to collect six trucks of grass every day to satisfy the appetites of their cows.
I got my truck for $2000 less than the sticker price.
The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence, apart from the aeroplane, was a hare which it struck on landing.
As last week, my Monday morning brain chemical imbalance has struck again.
That sounded like he was a beaten man before any ball was struck.
He hoped to get a new truck and go back on the road.
Swift Transportation pulled a planned $1.07 billion refinancing that the trucking company expected to reprice at 3.5 percentage points over Libor with a minimum rate of 4.75%, according to a person familiar with the deal. High-Yield Bond Issues, Loan Repricings Pulled; Treasurys Rise
He even got to drive the same truck he'd ridden in with his father as a kid.
Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices.
Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
Where once every conductor with a record contract had to have a Beethoven and Brahms symphonic cycle, today it seems you're nothing without your complete Bruckner and Mahler.
The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well.
He said he was beaten with an axe handle or cane, deprived of sleep, and struck on the soles of his feet until they were covered in blisters.
The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
And a man who ran alongside a tow truck, pleading to get his vehicle back after it was towed from a fire lane, died when he slipped and was run over by the truck and then his own Chevrolet Suburban. Boing Boing: July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005 Archives
The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old THE SEA FARMER
‘The logs will most probably be offloaded directly onto trucks which will take them to wherever they will be stored,’ he said.
There was a mass migration of poverty-struck farmers into the cities.
Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight. For todays active man
Heat and boiling air struck her face like a hammer as she fell to the burning sand.
I opened the door and went in, still struck by the sheer comfort and luxury of the room.
Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck.
As she approached the local railway station at the end of her route, she was struck by somebody from behind, held in an armlock around her throat and dragged off towards nearby dense trees and undergrowth.
To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
At about 2. 50pm on Wednesday, a light truck lost control on the slippery Hume Freeway between Arkells Lane and the Wandong exit, setting off a chain reaction when the car behind it slammed on the brakes, which in turn caused the car behind that to aquaplane straight into the car in front. Star News Group
He needs them to replace the rucksack - which contains a bag of fluid sending vital nutrients straight to his heart. The Sun
They tackle ferociously, hit the rucks hard and pass beautifully. Times, Sunday Times
Nearchus, however, went along the deck encouraging the men to remain firm and—in a move that must have struck the frightened sailors as sheer madness—ordered the helmsmen to turn their bows toward the whales in attack formation. Alexander the Great
She struck him on the nose.
They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
At the time the deal was struck, it had yet to receive regulatory clearance from British competition authorities.
I worried also about the nature of our neighborhood, which is a redneck Shangri-La of big dawgs, trucks with bad mufflers, heavily armed Gomers, and gangs of marauding feral boys with BB guns.
Reports suggested that on a bridge on this road a logging truck was blocking the traffic completely. Broken Lives
The ferries can't be used on regular runs because they can't carry big RVs, buses or commercial truck traffic, said Stefanson.
Meanwhile Hoxsey struck oil in Texas and used his riches to promote his burgeoning clinic and finance his court battles.
A builder was struck over the head with a scaffold pole after trying to stop thieves fleeing from a building site with a power tool.
Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
The more restricted of the existing modes are watercraft and trucks because they are confined to certain surfaces.
About five years ago, some bright spark working for Manchester Stagecoach Buses struck upon an idea which would make the company millions in additional fare revenue.
The computer this is being typed on will presently be packed into its shipping box, stuck in a truck for several days, and then a garage for a month.
Peter kept his eyes on the road with great difficulty; he wanted to look at her with moonstruck eyes and experience her loveliness all over again.
Waste was hauled by truck to various designated dumps, and the ore was to be stockpiled or to be directly crushed, screened, and agglomerated.
As it approached the crossroad, a truck loaded with sugarcane pulled out, blocking the road.
SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate
Her mother was Florence Margaret Poaps the youngest of five children of Jacob Vincent Poaps, born in Osnabruck On about 1890, and who at one time performed on the stage in NY city as a “diseuse”. Joan Murray | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
Ich suche jetzt aktuell für meine Band einen Anbieter, der mir Kleinserien druckt so 10–20 stk. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Vick Shirt Barred from Eagles Stadium
But I'm struck by what seems to be a romantic view of the designer as the one who does the typography - as opposed to the one who has the idea.
Hamilton Oil announced that it had struck oil in the Liverpool Bay area of the Irish Sea.
Besides over 200 British and European cheeses (trucked in from French and Spanish markets weekly) it stocks 40 different types of olives, oils, vinegars and charcuterie.
I also recall that his brother was a better than average ruckman.
If Irene had struck me in dancing the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of my superiority in age? Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan
The first shot from the "Conestoga" struck the water a few feet from the "Yankee," and, ricochetting, plunged into her hull. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
Mike was struck by how much the hotel resembled old taverns that he'd read about.
The children were still wide awake, when the clock struck twelve for the New Year's Day.
The place immediately struck me as a seemingly ideal spot for me to headquarter, so even before I arrived in Gotham it ranked as a first-line destination.
Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
He was struck down by cancer at the age of thirty.

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