Sentence examples for before it strikes from inspiring English sources

It may be true, as the US air force says, that because a drone can circle and study a target for hours before it strikes, its missiles are less likely to kill civilians than those launched from a piloted plane.

There is nothing on this planet more euphoric than sticking a needle into my vein, watching the blood register like a snake slithering quietly before it strikes its prey, slowly pushing down on the plunger, feeling the warmth moving up into my shoulder, exploding into a head-to-toe rush the instant the white liquid hits my heart.

Watch an alligator slowly eye its prey before it strikes at it, teeth-first.

If you have ever seen the tiny machinations and impulses a snake wriggles its body into before it strikes, you will understand Amber from Love Island's approach to human relationships: animals, like us, have certain set behaviours, little routines, erratic tics.

And a focus on preventing illness before it strikes.

The book suggests some remedies, foremost among them preventing cancer before it strikes.

Bottalico threw a high fastball that Canseco missed with a swing -- before it struck Canseco in the right biceps.

The cabin was open and cozy, a single large room with a high ceiling, and although I'd never been there before, it struck me as familiar.

When an oil worker told investigators on July 23 that an alarm to warn of explosive gas on the Transocean rig in the Gulf of Mexico had been intentionally disabled months before, it struck many people as reckless.

Witnesses described seeing the plane go into a steep decline, then rolling onto its back just before it struck the side of the hangar about 8 49 a.m.

He founded a publisher called Playfish in the early days of social gaming on Facebook then sold it to Electronic Arts for $300m, then invested early in developer Supercell before it struck mobile gold with its Clash of Clans game.