Sentence examples for strike at midday from inspiring English sources

Mr. Holmes would usually strike at midday, the police said, when he would follow a woman into her apartment building.

Unions have said they will strike at midnight on Thursday if no agreement is reached.

Since these raids are almost always done on foot, with no air or armor support, the commandos prefer to strike at night.

The workers, who have been without a contract since September, announced on Saturday that they would strike at noon today unless they had a new deal in place.

"They strike at night, and we strike back and kill them," said Hamad Nahar Al-Hamad, the 21-year-old commander of the unit.

When the earthquake struck at midday we were in our weekly music and art class.

Because the quake struck at midday, countless Japanese were at their cooking fires, and most of the physical damage and the casualties came from the conflagrations that swept the cities.

Mr. Poland, chairman of Degenkolb Engineers of San Francisco, and others said that it appeared that most of the buildings that were destroyed in the 6.3-magnitude quake, which struck at midday Tuesday, were older ones built before the country's building codes were made tougher beginning in the 1980s.

And because the smaller quake struck at midday, those residents were massed in larger buildings that were likely to kill victims if they collapsed.

At Mark Reifenrath's farm in northern Colorado, the thieves struck at night.

They often struck at night, their bugles signaling an advance and sending fear through our lines.