STRIKING in a Sentence

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368 example sentences for STRIKING, such as:

1. She bears a striking resemblance to her older sister.
2. Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five.
3. Joyce's style of writing was a striking departure from the literary norm.
4. The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
5. The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRIKING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
striking
 a.  dramatic; outstanding; arresting attention and producing a vivid impression
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  General Sherman was trying the fourth side of the town again, striking again at the railroad at Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  And the air of supercilious elegance which had clung about him in his striking Zouave uniform was completely gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  While he spoke she had moved slowly to the middle of the room, and paused near his writing-table, where the lamp, striking upward, cast exaggerated shadows on the pallour of her delicately-hollowed face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
9  She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping sullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
11  The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
13  In striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the blow is only inflicted by the recoil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
14  "It was given to me by a Vera Cruz girl; they are very generous," he replied, striking a match and lighting his cigarette.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
15  It was a striking circumstance that Jonas, too, had gotten his job by the misfortune of some other person.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
16  Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.
17  She bears a striking resemblance to her older sister.
18  Joyce's style of writing was a striking departure from the literary norm.
19  What's most striking is that the world as a whole has made remarkable progress against hunger, poverty and disease.
20  Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.
21  The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de.
22  The negotiating team had not expected such intransigence from the striking workers, who rejected any hint of a compromise.
23  The next refinement is to take into account that the luminous screen is typically round: any alpha particles striking outside the round area will not be visible.
24  I remember her appearance at the moment - it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue.
25  Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him.
26  Although the twins were separated at birth and grew up in different adoptive families, a striking parallelism exists between their lives.
27  Scientists knew that photons striking a plant's leaves triggered a cascade that ultimately resulted in sugar production, but no one knew exactly how that worked.
28  The group developed a sophisticated social-media strategy, complete with high-resolution videos and hashtag campaigns, striking for their contrast with the grainy Osama bin Laden videos that the al Qaeda leader would periodically release.
29  Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
30  The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.