Sentence examples for he struck upon from inspiring English sources
He struck upon an idea to monetize the intense between movies and fashion in Hyderabad.
The BBC's Stephanie Hegarty on the history of blue jeans: When a Nevada tailor called Jacob Davis was asked to make a pair of sturdy trousers for a local woodcutter, he struck upon the idea of reinforcing them with rivets.
Maugham had early ambitions to become a dramatist, but while at St Thomas's he struck upon the idea of a novel set among the London slums where he was working.
As an undergraduate at Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Art, he struck upon the idea of kidnappings for hire and, at a friend's request, broke into the apartment she shared with her girlfriend, bound them and threw them into a van.
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".
As recounted in the biography that Brinkley had commissioned, he struck upon the idea of transplanting goat testicles into men when a patient came to him to ask if he could fix someone who was "sexually weak".
"I'm a genius!" he exclaims as he strikes upon the idea of publishing a satire about two fictional hotel heiresses dancing topless.
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.
The decibel of the objections is evidence that he's struck upon truth.
He quickly struck upon his color: "Live chartreuse green" — or Olivine, in CB2-speak — which works outdoors as a "continuation of what the eyes are already seeing".
Mr. Glaser said he had struck upon the idea of making his media server software open source while visiting with an executive from Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker.
