Sentence examples for I struck upon from inspiring English sources

But I struck upon the idea of a different package.

Leveraging my experience in lesbian travel and LGBT marketing, my business partner and I struck upon the idea to take lesbians on vacation, get them out of their comfort zones and rally them to take on one bite-size chunk of a problem in a place we are visiting.

Instead, over a round of drinks with fellow paleontologists, Mr. Longrich struck upon, almost out of thin air, a name that would end up bringing him more publicity than any of his other discoveries: Mojoceratops.

Hard the street upon which I struck my head as I landed flat on my back.

If I commit to diligence -- to take the five minutes it has taken to put together these few paragraphs -- maybe, just maybe, I'll strike upon a passage worthwhile, a thought with meaning, an obsession that takes me to new creative frontiers.

Although I continuously contemplate as to why these adversities have been struck upon my family, I can never come up with a truly acceptable answer that brings me peace.

When the lexicographer Orin Hargraves was studying collocations for a project at Oxford University Press (where I previously worked as editor for American dictionaries), he struck upon a trove of collocations that "would not be statistically significant were it not for their appearance in fiction".

Dan struck upon his stupid-looking slanted eyed prototype which he uses to this day, I liked weak chins and cantilevered hairstacks for a reliable creep profile, and Charles had so many extreme effects that it was impossible to quantify them as such.

In 1943 the Nazis struck upon two entwined ideas.

The decibel of the objections is evidence that he's struck upon truth.

Higgs struck upon his theory while walking in the Cairngorms one weekend in 1964.