Sentence examples for struck at first from inspiring English sources

I was struck at first by how little direct supervision was given.

I was panic stricken at first, but it turned out to be the best vacation because I had no phone.

Gusting and drifting, Mr. Low's choreography was striking at first but soon the continual collapsing made it appear as if everyone had caught a wasting disease.

The towers did withstand the plane strikes at first, allowing thousands of people to escape, but then the fires, stoked by burning jet fuel, softened the steel of the towers.

What is striking at first sight is the width of all distributions.

Although the balance may seem awkward or difficult to strike at first, it will get easier.

His model is striking at first because it clearly assumed the transporter to be a protein embedded in the membrane; such a protein was metabolically-driven, enzyme-like and able to swing its attaching site from one side of the membrane to the other according to its conformational changes.

In the initial condition, the magnet deviates 3.3 mm from the equilibrium point, and the track is struck at the sixth and nineth seconds, respectively.

He tells stories unflattering to their intelligence: "If a line of people walks past a rattlesnake, it aims at the first person, strikes at the second, and hits the third".

It was not struck until 1795, as the Mint at first struck copper and silver coins.

The portion struck me at first as ungenerous.