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US
/ˈstɹaɪkɪŋ/
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[ UK /stɹˈaɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈaɪkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
a dramatic pause
it was a spectacular play
his striking good looks always created a sensation
a spectacular display of northern lights
a dramatic sunset -
having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book
a striking resemblance between parent and child
salient traits
a spectacular rise in prices
an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom
a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center
NOUN
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the act of contacting one thing with another
repeated hitting raised a large bruise
after three misses she finally got a hit -
the physical coming together of two or more things
contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull
How To Use striking In A Sentence
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Hindsight is always 20/20, and once Real had the early lead, the textbook approach would have been sitting deeper, congesting the midfield to absorb the pressure and striking on the counterattack. Barcelona's Guide to Beating Real Madrid
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
- Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
- Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week. Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
- They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
- Here location at the two extremities of the peninsula has involved a striking difference in ethnic infusions in the two districts, different historical careers owing to different vicinal grouping, and dissimilar geographic conditions. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.