• Tonight, apparently, she has struck the death blow!
• Maybe you miss once or twice, then you strike the death blow.
• With that stone the brute had tried to strike the death blow.

Synonyms

• A Texas pathologist who received the original findings later suggested the woman died accidentally when she fell down the stair backwards and struck her head.
• He fell backwards and struck his head on the pavement.
• Witnesses told police they believed she was trying to slow the horse from an uncontrolled gallop when she fell, striking her head.

• It could get struck by lightning or smashed up in your car.
• The jet sped off the end of the runway, crossed a busy highway, and struck several cars before crashing into a warehouse.
• Swerving to avoid an oncoming car, his vehicle struck the kerb, crashed backwards through the stone balustrade and plunged into the river.

Synonyms

• They're differences in the amount of light striking a surface, just as they are differences in the light reflected from the surface to the eye.
• If the light striking a blue surface is predominantly blue, the blue object will appear almost white in a black and white photograph.
• We have sought for such things and we believe that we have found them in the shaft of light striking the shimmering surface of solid rock.

• Stephenson had to kick the touchline conversion to claim the spoils and while he lost his footing as he struck the ball, his kick still went clean through the middle to end a superb cup tie of the highest order.
• Both teams showed a lot of respect for each other and but for some late challenges on players as they struck the ball the game was played in a sporting manner.
• To tell the truth, I have never struck a golf ball so well.

Synonyms

• But wait, the orchestra has not struck the first note; the stage curtain has not gone up.
• In an attempt to win you over, the band stand up and make their ambition clear from the second the first note is struck.

• We defeated an enemy that was virtually global, and had struck without warning, and was really quite diabolical.
• Police have issued this e-fit of a violent burglar who has struck at least four times.
• Wouldn't it be better instead to simply strike without warning?

Synonyms

• Phillip opened his mouth to answer, but what came next was a yelp as the officer that had killed Kolev was struck down by an arrow in his neck.
• It's a good point that if he had not been struck down by serious ill health, he may well have continued their rise to the very top of the league.
• Abbot Tathal, who had become like the father she had lost, had been struck down by the same man who had killed her family.

• We received a press release this morning which struck such fear into our hearts we decided that we had to let you, the innocent public, know of its existence as quickly as possible, in order to avoid mass panic.
• But it was the highest level since Tokyo began keeping track in 1953, and struck a deep chill into the hearts of many Japanese.
• Well, I think this probably struck a little fear into the heart of the regime.

• She finds it easy to talk to the strangers she meets in her restless wanderings, knowing nothing about them and caring less, but she is struck dumb in the face of her mute daughter.
• Before I am struck dumb by incredulity, you might like to know that this test was carried out in the name of research into the theory that women sniff out ideal mates.
• Enter the Jaya Marthanda gates and you are struck dumb by the perfect proportions and sweep of the palace, though you may be visiting it for the 20th time.

• Roger Federer is the most breathtaking player to watch - especially live, when you are struck by the impression that he must have six arms.
• Orwell's scrupulous observations and distinctions strike me as impressive and useful in the context of the war being waged against us now.
• On that day they looked anything but impressive and what struck me about their performance that day was how quickly they crumbled once Donegal took the initiative.

Synonyms

• I was struck by a number of interesting points about this spiked-debate so far.
• The guides who aided and fleeced the pioneers who moved West were struck by how clueless many of them were about the wilderness they were entering.
• After a few days of scouting venues and contemplating a Registry Office wedding, we were struck by how much we weren't looking forward to the event.

• Waking unhappily and hearing eleven o'clock strike, he wondered at Ellie's voice at his father's bedroom door.

• The bar in my hands spun wildly and the impact struck sparks from the iron.
• Millstones, if they were not adjusted properly, could strike sparks from each other.
• Her blade clanged against Amanda's hard, striking a haze of sparks that lit the air between them.

• The mercury excites the phosphor coating on interior of the tube when the arc is struck.

• Some 800 nurses struck Queen's Medical Center three weeks ago.
• Following a workers' committee decision, the staff struck the bank's business division.

• Yesterday, the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting professional conduct committee struck her off, after ruling that her behaviour amounted to misconduct.
• With just two weeks to go until the appeal deadline, the GP has still not decided whether to challenge a decision by the General Medical Council to strike him off for professional misconduct.
• The consultant was struck off by the professional conduct committee in November 2000, over a 1996 operation in which he was accused of abandoning a patient who later bled to death.

• It does not follow, if this legislation is struck down, that the appellant can get away with biting people.
• Nevertheless, the Virginia Supreme Court - over the dissent of some of its Justices - struck the statute down.
• As I predicted, however, the Supreme Court did not strike these laws down on grounds that they were special-interest rent-seeking legislation.

• We had to contemplate striking a new print and making a new telecine which is expensive.
• Then there's the fact that the stocks used for striking prints have improved dramatically and can improve a lot more yet.
• It will be the theatrical cut for every country - that's based on it costing too much to go back and do an uncut version for other markets, and strike new prints.

• Failure so to notify the bank should be deemed to constitute a verification by the customer of the balance struck.

• The District of North Vancouver has struck a special committee to look into the allegations.
• In addition, a small steering committee was struck.
• Various special committees are then struck from time to time to assess specific situations.

• When I struck the beach on the south shore, I was more than 5 kilometers downstream from Linz.

• Something that works is most often a simple and elegant balance of elements struck upon by design or chance.
• When we find an anomaly, which defies the notion of some regularity, corresponding to our sense-perception of the world around us, we have struck upon the possibility of discovering a universal physical principle, like gravity.
• It seems a few lefty types thought they'd struck upon a fine idea: create a blog, then email a bunch of center/right bloggers to attempt to bring the crowds to their site.

• Of course she decides to strike out on her own.
• To some extent, when a first lady strikes out in an independent manner, she disrupts the first three news frames of a supportive wife who has protocol functions and a good works agenda.
• In late 1985, while now trying to strike out as an independent game designer but still living north of Boston, Moon decided to organize a game group, the North Shore Game Club.

• I can raise and strike a sail, reef it and stow it.

Synonyms

• He's trying to grow cuttings, but doesn't even know which part of the plant is best to strike from.

• A 24-hour post strike is expected in London, called by the Communication Workers Union after pay talks with Royal Mail stalled.
• He even resisted a municipal garbage strike, by renting a truck and picking up the garbage himself.
• When 6000 women call a 2 month sex strike things get done.

• A late strike from leading scorer Steve Oleksewycz was the visitors' only consolation.
• Then approaching the striking zone, he drew the goal-keeper out and confused him by delaying his strike before slotting the ball into the left-corner.
• The young German has made himself a hero on the Holte End since he has been in the first team with some tremendous goals and strikes from distance.

• No one throws a strike every ball, which is why filling frames is very important.
• Throwing strikes is great because you knock down all 10 pins and don't have to shoot a spare.

• One of the problems I see the newcomer to saltwater fly fishing do when they feel a fish is give a hefty strike upwards as they would in trout fishing.
• This is their fifth day and we have yet to hook a fish, despite two half-hearted strikes.

• He's throwing strikes and mixing his pitches well.
• I went to the bullpen to warm up and couldn't throw strikes and didn't have any stuff.

• So it's two strikes against us with regards to this photo, and we don't have any greater understanding of the world around us.
• A lot of people think a governor on the ticket is helpful, but that he had two strikes against him.
• So does that make two strikes against efficiency?