Sentence examples for a fast strike from inspiring English sources

The heat lost by even a small rodent is sufficient to alert a waiting viper and enable it to direct a fast strike at the animal as it passes by.

Up close, however, this campaign, which officially started last October, sometimes appears more a slog than a fast strike, a lesson in the painstaking process of fighting sexually transmitted diseases even when, like syphilis, they have a cure as easy as a couple of shots of penicillin.

Hit B in a swords duel for a faster strike.

Although crickets and many other detritivorous and herbivorous arthropods are sometimes caught unaware by a spider's fast strike, they often escape with fast movements.

If you're faster, get in fast, strike fast, and get out fast.

Of the many poisonous elapid snakes, the most dangerous to humans include taipans (Oxyuranus), smooth snakes (Parademansia), tiger snakes (Notechis), brown snakes (Pseudonaja), and death adders (Acanthophis); the latter, although smaller than the others, have large fangs, a lightning-fast strike, and highly toxic venom.

Start by kicking up the knee on your non-striking foot, then when that foot hits the ground, use that power to kick off the ground for a harder, faster strike.

The punch coming into the glove sounded like a fast ball striking a catcher's mitt.

Whatever the long-term prospects of this company — an issue over which reasonable people reasonably disagree — the idea that small-time investors might get rich fast struck the pros as absurd".

Optimism over Verizon's concession in the wireless area gave way over the weekend to feelings among negotiators that a fast resolution to the strike, which is entering its ninth day, has become more remote.

According to the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), 302 women and 24 men are engaged in a "fast until death" hunger strike, but it remains difficult to ascertain with any degree of authority how many of these men and women are in fact supplementing their diet in some way for the preservation of health and safety and to what degree that might be the case.