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Discover LudwigThe phrase "struck him as" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It is typically followed by an adjective or adjective phrase and is used to express someone's reaction or impression of something. Example: The painting struck him as vibrant and full of life, even though it was a simple landscape.
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That struck him as funny.
But none struck him as satisfactory.
Few places struck him as worth the price.
In general, the area struck him as comfortable.
This idea had apparently struck him as well.
There was something about the monetary figure that struck him as wretched.
But he didn't want to be a naturalist; observation struck him as too inefficient.
The water was fine; the prospect of drowning struck him as romantic.
Williams advised Stevens to delete, from a poem, two lines that struck him as sentimental.
It struck him as too early.
As Skog recalls, that struck him as odd.
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