Sentence examples for on struck from inspiring English sources

Even special glass is not nearly as strong as a wall, and should be considered only an extra margin of safety in case the window is unexpectedly climbed on, struck, or otherwise abused.

I clung on, struck by surf spray and fear, while Jose, our skipper, just smiled at me, knowingly.

The victims were robbed, beaten, stamped on, struck with bricks and other objects, choked and burned to an extent that left the older child close to death.

They led the victims, then nine and 11, to waste ground and subjected them to a 90-minute ordeal during which they were robbed, beaten, stamped on, struck with bricks and other objects, choked and burned.

Given the archconservatism of that moment, it's not surprising that the show — or perhaps more accurately, the cultural meme it rode in on — struck such a cultural nerve that it even inspired a quip from Laura Bush at the White House Correspondents Associationn dinner in 2005.

Many won't appear on struck TV shows such as the Tonight Show or Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

Darren Gough's outswinger accounted for Tendulkar and Sehwag self-destructed at mid-on but Ganguly, striding down the pitch to swing four sixes over long-on, struck 80 from 99 balls with Giles, the match-winner in Delhi, this time eclipsed.

That perfectly penned, single-sitting-compact add-on struck me profoundly, unlike a video game has since (honestly, I don't think that another game has imprinted itself on my forever-memory in quite the same way).

Work on striking a balance.

Disaster struck on Christmas Eve , 1888

Inspiration struck on the farm.