Sentence examples for high striking from inspiring English sources

This might just work, but the odds against remain high: striking a deal that satisfies the British (soon to acquire a new leader in Gordon Brown), the Poles, the Czechs and others will be hard.

Throughout the day, other signatures of the hallucinogen high struck him.

Leiter, cap pulled low and shoulders hunched high, struck out Chuck Knoblauch to lead off the bottom of the first.

The complaint about high strikes dates back decades.

He had some trouble with the high strike.

Umpires did not call high strikes on the corners.

It was a strike only because the high strike is being called this year.

But Darling said he did not think the high strike would ever be consistently called.

"If they call the high strike," O'Neill said, "at least you can reach that.

In 1987, Peter Gammons wrote in Sports Illustrated that calling those long-lost high strikes would speed up ballgames.

Iassogna is calling high strikes tonight, and this one started inside and tailed back over the plate.