How To Use Struck In A Sentence

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
So I think of Beckett as not being religious in the usual sense but at least being alive, being truly alive, and horror-struck by it.
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.
Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.

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
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
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 first English gold coin was struck in 1255.
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.
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.
I have struck up conversations with numerous people who know the name of my dog but not mine. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Her pedestrian, low-brow, unperceptive prose has struck a chord with the so-bad-it's-good brigade.
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 was designed by a professional medalist named John Woodhouse Jnr and struck by West & Co of Belfast.
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.
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?
The stone struck her on the forehead.
Even the situation with Morgan LeFay had not struck such terror into the creature.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
He successfully stood off her heavy blows struck by his match.
No one can fail to be struck by the vibrancy of New York.
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.
She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals.
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.
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.
At around the same time engineers struck and formed a workers' committee which spread its influence to other industrial centres.
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
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.
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
She had been struck over the head with a blunt object. The Sun
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
At the time the deal was struck, it had yet to receive regulatory clearance from British competition authorities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He was struck down by cancer at the age of thirty.
When he found that it was for people of consequence in a private room that the articles were required, he set to work with a will and produced a polish "that would have struck envy to the soul of _the amiable Mr. Warren_, _for they used Day and Martin's at the_ '_White Pickwickian Studies
A world before which one has to relearn how to look, with the large wide-eyed gaze of a wonderstruck child.
I was a bit starstruck. Times, Sunday Times
French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
Survival hopes were revived after a deal was struck by chairman Nigel Hughes to continue the groundshare next season with Cheltenham Town.
Father-of-two Ivan, who lived modestly, struck rich 10 years ago when a distant cousin left him ￡8 million.
It would seem that Sammy's dear little darling sister has struck again.
This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum). Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
We were all struck dumb for a minute.
He could tell from the distant look in Seira's eyes that the other boy had been struck with a sudden inspiration for a piece.
The attacker struck as she was walking near a housing estate at Monacurra.
The miner struck significant quantities of zinc and lead in Greenland drilling in the autumn. Times, Sunday Times
Experts calculated up to a dozen blows were struck.
Prosecutor Neil Tyrell said Mitchell struck her when she tried to pull her boyfriend away from him.
Given these giant loopholes, the judge struck the law down as serving no rational purpose.
And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being, actually being born struck them as bizarre.
Martin struck the rebound inches wide of the right post when a goal would have been the easier option.
The first, from 30 yards, was well-struck, but the keeper palmed it away and the follow-up from Anthony Ruddy was again smothered by the Erris custodian.
Building on its native Germanic word star, English has the verb to star; compounds like stardom, all-star, stargazer, five-star, starstruck, and superstar; and phrases such as rock star and pop star. The English Is Coming!
The church clock struck a quarter to twelve, and still the bride did not come.
He struck out at his wife.
Indeed the Prime Minister looked more awestruck of her than she was of him when he presented the medals. Times, Sunday Times
The 1827 restrikes are well known because of the rarity of issues for the year, and were most likely surreptitiously made in the late 1850s, some with rusted dies and some overstruck on older quarters (a piece struck on an 1806 quarter is known). Capped Bust Quarter, Large Size, 1815-1828 : Coin Guide
Inspiration struck when they decided to do a skydive. Times, Sunday Times
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a Vietnamese man living in Sefton, Australia died earlier this week after being struck in the chest by police using a Taser device, despite warnings from the gun's manufacturer about using the device in that area of the body. Australian Man Shocked With Taser Gun 13 Times (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
Karen was totally thunderstruck at her husband's attitude.
The administration, motivated more by ideology than by reasoned analysis, struck out on its own.
As they scuffled, a foot struck the lantern, pushing it perilously close to the edge. End of Time
He struck the harp so that the sound rang out into hall.
I gave the kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it.
His rags to riches story struck a chord with all football fans last season. The Sun
He is angry that no medal had ever been struck to commemorate them.
Sudden inspiration struck her, and she hurried over to the corner of the room.
She struck her opponent a tremendous blow on the jaw.
His van allegedly struck the two as they were crossing a street.
A bolt struck one of the assailants in the neck and nearly decapitated him.
Queen's doubled their lead when Elger struck again with another field goal eight minutes into the second quarter.
There had to be oxygen present, and the surface on which the match was struck had to be of a certain kind.
Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
The boat struck the bank full tilt. The Wind in the Willows
As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged. The Story of the Guides
He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors.
The stable food, the potato rotted from the land as the first strains of malignant blight struck, and there was nothing left to eat.
The light struck the golden necklace
He was saved when the rounds struck bulletproof glass. Times, Sunday Times
He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
He struck his head on/against the beam.
The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
Or when George's toe struck a stone, giving him intense pain which he could hardly contain soundlessly.
He struck the nail home.
About 125 years later, the town erected an enormous, life-sized model of the squid, so that all who look upon it might be awestruck.
From the edge of the small waves Somers heard one man talking to another, and the English tones — unconsciously he expected a foreign language — and particularly the peculiar educated – artisan quality, almost a kind of uppishness that there is in the speech of Australian working men, struck him as incongruous with their picking up the coal – cobs from the shore. Kangaroo
In ten minutes after the first concussion, and while the engines were still turning astern, the ship, as stated, struck again under the engine room, bilging the side several feet, and tearing open the bottom.
Bank of England officials continued to insist that the pound would soon return to stability but disaster struck.
Phil Howell reduced the deficit to a single point with a well struck penalty but Doncaster clinched it with a converted try.
Cortez's case struck a responsive and sympathetic chord in the hearts of his compatriots.
He was struck off the medical register for professional misconduct.
One rarely struck up a conversation with Angela unless she spoke first; anyway, it was enough just to be with her.
I was struck with ease after finishing the article.
The vehicle was struck in the empty passenger side as the driver attempted to cross the tram lines. The Sun
She was struck dumb and he walked past her carefully to call her sister.
Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on. The Turn of the Screw
What struck me most, after this long passage of time, is what we deem “permissible” on the screen today: We can — with impunity — rape, skewer, torture, vilify, scarify, plunge fangs into carotid arteries, sodomize…women can reveal frontal nudity within a half-inch of genitalia; men can stand frontally nude with only a hand cupped over the thingy…but only frontal. Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts…
In pt ii. of the _Niebelungen Lied_, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without making the least effort to save them, and is as unlike the Attila of history as a "hector" is to the noble Trojan "the protector of mankind. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
‘It struck me like a physical blow, a bullet to the heart, staggering me back, stunned,’ recalls Campbell.
And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
Severe drought and other natural disasters struck the country in 1997-98, possibly as a result of the effects of El Niño.
His error struck at the whole plan of a river development.
I wanna be up to my nuts in starstruck college girl when I’m 100 years old too, I dont care if it means I have to tape my wanksta to an oak branch just to create an illusion of rigidity, I have NO shame. NICHOLSON TO LEDGER: ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ (UPDATE)
He swayed, then crashed to the stone floor and the grease keg unstuck from his foot with a 'chug' and rolled across the garage, rattling as it struck the old debris, and bounced into the greasing pit. Funeral In Berlin
Ishmael was struck by the man's austere expression.
It could get struck by lightning or smashed up in your car.
But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
The yam bean's crisp, juicy quality - and the idea of eating the tuber raw - struck the Tongans as exotic and peculiar.
An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
In recent years scientists have been struck by the diversity and variety of objects found in the solar system.
I will say nothing of the wind-instruments; but all pp. 's, cresc., discresc., and all f. 's and ff. 's may as well be struck out of my Opera, for no attention whatever is paid to them. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2
Stabler had three chances to put West Hartlepool ahead with penalty kicks but failed, though one struck an upright.
The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited, The Talisman
I struck the cup down in a sudden fit of furry.
He threw petrol in my car as I was sitting in it and he struck a match and threw it at the car.
What struck me as odd was that they had their apertures sealed with a hard calcareous epiphragm as opposed to a membranous one observed in eastern U.S. snails that normally don't experience long dry periods. Archive 2006-06-01
In the eighth century, another earthquake struck, but by that time the city had been abandoned.
Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away.
While Nicky watched and marvelled, his father Paul, rating Rio the finest place he has been, was struck by the bold attitudes towards poverty.
A five-a-side game was going on and it suddenly struck the hardline boss certain players were simply going through the motions. The Sun
She said her father was leading the horse on a long rein when tragedy struck on Sunday. The Sun
To my surprise and delight, I found that I had struck gold!
D'ye mind yon nicht langsyne when your faither came in wi 'a terrible look in his een and struck me in the breist? The House with the Green Shutters

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