Sentence examples for know how to strike from inspiring English sources

They also know how to strike.

Her Miss Helen wouldn't even know how to strike an artistic pose.

But I'm a sociable person, I know how to strike up a conversation.

I didn't know how to strike up a conversation with them.

Just as it demands someone of Tom Ford's vision to know which cheese to serve, and how much to slice off, it takes a designer of Mr. de la Renta's sophistication to know how to strike the balance.

The best films know how to strike a balance: take There Will be Blood, which eases us back into its early 20th-century setting with an extended dialogue-free opening sequence, then kicks us out of the cinema with "I drink your milkshake!" echoing in our ears.

The governor, Mr. Lentol said, "knows how to strike a compromise".

Some people knew how to strike just the right note, offering love and support without hovering.

But like many environmentalists, the patriarch also knows how to strike an apocalyptic note.

I only got to take three photos of each, and they knew how to strike all the poses.

Neither a statesman nor a theoretician, he knew how to strike people at their weak spots and how to win battles by reading a map.