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ten-strike

NOUN
  1. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
    he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame

How To Use ten-strike In A Sentence

  • While such appeals occasionally make a ten-strike, the average correspondent must rely upon logic and "reasons why" in making his appeal to men. Business Correspondence
  • “If we can take him away from the Soviets, that would be a ten-strike,” I replied.3 Turmoil and Triumph
  • At his lowest ebb, when his black suit was in pawn, he made a ten-strike - or so it seemed to him — in a prize contest arranged by the County Chapter 29
  • But it was when Daughtry and Michael first sang "Roll me Down to Rio" together, that the ten-strike was made. CHAPTER XVIII
  • GREENFIELD: That appeal was a ten-strike, hitting directly at the block Nixon most coveted: traditional blue collar Democrats for whom patriotism was a powerful political motivator. CNN Transcript May 16, 2006
  • “This Nicaragua event is a ten-strike,” I told him. Turmoil and Triumph
  • In fact, those brought ten-strike innovation in the commerce history, the feasibility is difficult to ratiocinate and judge with logic at the initial.
  • “I felt it would have been a ten-strike had we been able to get him.” WILLIE MAYS
  • Twain said in a letter to his friend William Dean Howells, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, that Orion "wrote me jubilantly of what a ten-strike he was going to make with that speech. Mark Twain's "Skeleton Novelette"
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