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/stɹˈaɪkɪŋli/
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[ US /ˈstɹaɪkɪŋɫi/ ]
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in a striking manner
the evidence was strikingly absent
this was strikingly demonstrated
How To Use strikingly In A Sentence
- The rest of the disc isn't as sonically edgy, but the sounds and settings that Bowie & Ronson worked up for each are strikingly appropriate.
- While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
- Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
- Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
- Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
- He has a sturdy build with strikingly muscular hands and chiseled features.
- Strikingly, Podhorzer said that his union's internal polls -- which push voters hard on the question of whether people are really firmly committed to their pick -- show that as many as "15 to 20 percent" of battleground state voters remain "persuadable," as he put it, despite what public polls say about the level of undecided voters. Top Obama Labor Supporter Warns Race Remains Volatile, Says Voters Lack Clear Sense Of Obama
- This opens strikingly with the high voices singing unaccompanied in unison.
- The general effect of the second photograph is strikingly polychromatic.
- Deuteronomy has a strikingly sad ending. Christianity Today