Sentence examples for if to strike from inspiring English sources

As if to strike back against the abusers of the form, Pope used couplets for everything: poetry, essays, and translation.

Several times, she said, he raised his hand as if to strike the woman, but he did not.

He tried to make a funny face, but his father lifted his hand over his head as if to strike him again, and Yisroel flinched.

But this week, the French radio station RTL reported that surveillance videos showed Méric approaching one of the skinheads from behind, as if to strike, before the man turned and felled him with a single punch to the face.

At the crucial point when Lohengrin tells his bride-to-be that she may never ask his name, the triple-cast Kirov Lohengrin (the visiting Gosta Winbergh, Victor Lutsuk or Leonid Lubavin) grabbed the double-cast Elsa (Tatyana Pavlovskaya or Tatyana Borodina) by the chin, raising his free hand as if to strike her.

And well may Archdeacon Haynes shrink from the dark season; for he has a dark secret himself, and the prayer desk at his stall is decorated with carvings of a cat, crouching as if to strike, a prick-eared and horned figure, "invested with the attributes of royalty", and a cowled figure who, on close inspection, is revealed to be "the King of Terrors" (I presume this means Death).

What the strategists seem to forget is that the Soviets also have nuclear weapons, and they will use them to retaliate if not to strike first.

"If they want to strike, they should be fired," Mr. Kasich said in a speech.

His return is vital if Inter intend to strike a blow away from home.

If we have to strike, we will, but I don't think anyone wants a strike.

"If we have to strike, we're prepared to do it," Mr. Fishman said.