Sentence examples for struck in the same from inspiring English sources

Comcast said part of the weakness at had to do with a Netflix deal the media company struck in the same quarter of 2011.

Two and a half months after an earthquake killed nearly 70,000 people in western China, three earthquakes struck in the same region, killing one person and injuring at least 10, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.

But even the hardest ground will give if it is struck in the same place over and over, and so, little by little, his mother-in-law was able to dig up the dirt.

A grenade lobbed at the residence of a government official near Mogadishu airport injured two of his staff, another struck in the same area, a third exploded near the strategic Bakara market and one caused a blast in a northeastern neighborhood.

In June 2000 two Mw6.5 earthquakes occurred in South Iceland and in May 2008 an Mw6.3 quake struck in the same area.

While we waited silently for his mom to catch up, I was struck, in the same way I was struck the first time I met the family, by his existence.

"Maybe it was too much to expect lightning to strike in the same place twice.

It was like lightning striking in the same place four times, though considerably less painful.

After all, not striking in the same place twice (or, indeed, at all) is something lightning does quite often.

Everyone knows lightning is not supposed to strike in the same place twice, let alone four times.

Should this be a case of more counselling for Wright, or time to bring in the police on the common-sense theory that lightening doesn't strike in the same place twice?