Sentence examples for like a strike from inspiring English sources

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It was like a strike against the authorities".

They came in like a strike, but at the last moment, they go down".

But, in fact, they still looked more like a strike and a spare.

Like a strike, it is often the last and most desperate weapon available to those with the least power.

As contract talks open, few expect anything like a strike over health care payments because both sides have too much to lose.

A new generation of KC-135 refueling tanker planes would let Israel's warplanes stay in the air longer, an ability essential for any long-range mission — like a strike on Iran.

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Like a strike-bound passenger dossing down in the departure lounge, this cut-price British airline has endured a long and frustrating wait.

The crisis in Cuba looked like a struck match.

A plane without landing gear is like a struck match.

Like a struck tuning fork, Bechtle's skepticism finds harmonic vibrations in works by young artists of otherwise unrelated sorts.

Both that earthquake and the great Chilean earthquake of 1960 set the entire planet into reverberation, like a struck gong.

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