Sentence examples for strike it out from inspiring English sources

The motto of the copy-reader in the sporting department at one time was "If you see a good line strike it out".

Dr Johnson said, about re-reading something you've written, 'Wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' He was spot on.

"When I can no longer keep dividing," she writes, in "Solitude Study," "the odds are in my favor to strike it out alone".

If Lloyds attempts to strike it out on the basis of the 2011 settlement and fails it could open the door to hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals and companies attempting to rip up their agreements".

Oxford University, which claims the case has no merit and was brought outside the legal time limit, had asked Mr Justice Kerr to strike it out at an early stage.

In his "Life of Samuel Johnson," Boswell quotes Johnson saying on April 30 , 1773 "An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' " GEORGE A. DAVIDSON New York.

The other delegates could not abide it: they struck it out almost entirely.

But the Democratic-controlled Assembly struck it out, effectively blocking Mr. Pataki from spending the money.

You'll notice that I cleverly struck it out, indicating that it's no longer valid.

Mr. Madison was for striking it out: considering it as of no advantage to the large States as fettering the Govt. and as a source of injurious altercations between the two Houses.

For Gen Xers and Boomers, the thrill of startup life was mostly tied to the risk of striking it out on your own.