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    Use "striking" in a sentence

    striking example sentences

    striking


    1. Although nothing special really, and having seen some rather more striking ones since then, these still stick in my mind


    2. I stained to hear the bat striking the ball


    3. This girl was striking though


    4. I could feel the old anger rising again, like a cobra, swaying gently, fixing its prey with a striking eye


    5. "They saw the code for that virus as a missile striking at the speed of light," Herndon recited their propaganda


    6. He turned to them and there was a look of such joy on his face, the transformation was striking


    7. I hear more projectiles striking the trees around us


    8. How tempting was that! Put this all behind her, leave the most party of all worlds for one of the least? True, there would still be yaag available, but did she want to be that out of place? Did she know him that well? She was committing to a relationship of decades or striking out on her own into the unknown to leave him


    9. Without a word, Berndt turns along a trackway skirting the edge of Gloster, leaving the town on our right and striking across the valley towards the river


    10. Kai stopped, and then he stepped forward and bowed formally striking his chest with his large fist

    11. Rayne turned and scanned the entire surrounding area; then she stepped forward and bowed to the assembled group, striking her chest once, as she had seen First Kai do


    12. " He overlaid the view with the same chart he had shown earlier with the raw activity levels, the lower level of activity in the targeted rock was striking


    13. only way to secure peace was by striking fear into the hearts of his


    14. whore, play with me,' Mama said as he danced around Ali, just out of the striking


    15. I scribble down her address then, striking while the iron is hot


    16. Inspiration striking, he drew closer to the other two and asked,


    17. “It’s the bridge, isn’t it?” Tom asked, inspiration striking


    18. Even from a distance she was rather striking


    19. She remembered him, of course, from their past commerce in the town, and was fondly reminded how striking a figure he had always been, even as a lad


    20. striking an intrusive chord in the holiday song

    21. Suddenly, the void shone a bright light, striking Justice in the stomach and imprinting his image into the doors like a woodcut, where he remained forever, and the light spread across the universe faster than time itself, and everything turned white


    22. What a striking difference from Elphon! Altreena was a planet where everything was made easy physically, but on Elphon everything was hard


    23. “Yeah, not allowing a ball in fair territory, striking out nine in a row, real


    24. Those with their weapons held in Whimly's direction spun, striking out as they moved


    25. Plush, black rolls of fur covered her shoulders and neck, a striking contrast to her lips which were painted dark red


    26. " I heard the striking of a match


    27. Too tired to fight, Emily turned and hurried on while behind her the air was rent with thunder as Tetloan began striking the invading soldiers


    28. There was another flurry of shots and Janice could see the bullets striking the other men


    29. She moved with impossible speed, her glowing blue fists striking out with incredible destructive power


    30. It took only a couple quick strides of his long legs and Adros was in striking range

    31. Rag’nerack was within striking range when the scene turned to utter chaos, and not at all the type he had expected


    32. As for Vorous, he was a striking youth of twenty years or so


    33. Delvin certainly saw her as much, attributing to her presence a striking shift in fortune and a pal-DRAFT


    34. arity at the waving Legion colors set against the striking towers


    35. It was a decent size and she thought it might serve as a good striking weapon


    36. Striking a balance between work and play is still considered the ideal,


    37. His features were classically Imperial, dusky and striking


    38. He watched with amazement and confusion as it was replaced with that of a much younger dark-haired man, the same striking eyes of slate and tanned complexion


    39. But given this as an apparent matter of life and death…how could she have hidden it so? More striking yet, how could she bear that brilliantly warm smile amid it all? How could anyone shoulder a burden like that alone?


    40. She realized that the quality so often striking her as arrogance was something else entirely

    41. “Okay, you can only see the napkin because it reflects light striking it from the lamp up there


    42. I want to know which side of their heads they part their hair before the Huntress gets to within striking distance!”


    43. His reaction to this was striking enough


    44. While some dismissed it as a trifling detail, of no real concern to their desired status quo, it was a striking development to this agent


    45. Yet despite this striking appearance his demeanour remained respectful, and his voice was shot through with soft humility


    46. The sun was bright in the sky, fierce against the striking blue backdrop


    47. There was a haze lingering about as well, one that softened the rich colors of the Rift’s foliage normally brown and striking green - but she paid it no mind


    48. His eyes, a striking green, had a thoughtful expression to them


    49. the palm of the hand, with the palm being the backup or secondary striking


    50. In technique and form, Shootfighting is a mix of striking and grappling














































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    Synonyms for "striking"

    hit hitting striking contact impinging outstanding prominent salient spectacular dramatic conspicuous noteworthy attractive memorable remarkable singular obvious imposing stunning dazzling extraordinary beautiful

    "striking" definitions

    the physical coming together of two or more things


    the act of contacting one thing with another


    sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect


    having a quality that thrusts itself into attention