Sentence examples for struck lightly from inspiring English sources

The subsequent response to changing load and the small vibrations executed when the strip is struck lightly are characteristic of the new unsymmetrical shape.

Toward the end, he initiated a call-and-response with the audience, mugging and pointing each time the crowd hollered out the descending refrain, "Red shoes!" He struck lightly mocking rock-star poses.

We did not make the decision to strike lightly.

State Department briefings provided to Secretary Shultz pointed out that, the Contras "continued to strike lightly defended infrastructure targets, blowing up electrical towers" and that their "tactics of striking at economic and infrastructure targets have worsened Nicaragua's economic situation".

As other police officers came to their colleague's aid, the student ran away, and a police bullet ricocheted and struck him, lightly wounding him.

"We know that they did not take the decision to begin a hunger strike lightly, and we want them to know we will do everything we can to support them and get them home soon".

When it is time to drop the enforcement hammer, the safety agency can strike only lightly.

Teachers do not take strike action lightly but when the profession is being torn apart by a government whose reforms have little to do with standards, or evidence, then the time to sit back has to end".

"We know health workers don't take strike action lightly or often.

A Minimalist figure for three players on two vibraphones is juxtaposed with rising pitches drawn from a slowly emptied, lightly struck wine bottle.

Although lightly struck, that elegiac note reverberates throughout the book, which begins as one sad drunk's personal quest for redemption and becomes a lament for all the old familiar things that are now almost lost, almost forgotten.