Sentence examples for blow strikes from inspiring English sources

I'm frustrated and eager to put some miles behind me, but to ride in intermittent, sometimes forceful downpours (thunderstorms are forecast) into a 15- to 20-mile-per-hour blow strikes me as foolish, or worse — no fun.

This condition often occurs in children or adolescents with a non-penetrating and usually innocent appearing, blow to the middle of the chest, such as when a baseball, hockey puck, lacrosse ball, softball or karate blow strikes the athlete's chest.

In 1968, another blow struck the Wexler family.

"The blow struck his upper body," he said.

We usually think of greater inclusiveness as a blow struck for equality.

Mikhail Gorbachev Khruschevv's speech was the first blow struck at Stalin's totalitarian system.

Ankiel was having a good day; there was not a solid blow struck against him.

The "major blow" struck on Friday, as senior policymakers called it, now looks less major.

The last was the revolutionary thing - a blow struck for geography as well as class.

It could be a blow struck against themselves in service of the long-term health of the Senate.

The figures sound symbolic but the rulings are still an important first blow struck at the system of profit-shielding.