Sentence examples for struck like from inspiring English sources
The phrase "struck like" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a sudden, intense action. For example, "The lightning bolt struck like an explosion."
In its most unsettling and best-known moment – the only section of the novella previously translated into English – the narrator is struck "like lightning" by the analogy between the treatment being meted out by the army to the Palestinians, huddling together on the point of departure, and the history of the Jews: All at once everything seemed to mean something different, more precisely exile.
It suggests the new era has hardly struck like thunder.
No visits to relatives in towns that are typically struck, like Netanya.
One night, inspiration struck like lightning and I wrote 800 words about how an unaccompanied 24-hour flight changed me.
But when I saw the newspaper ad for teaching English in Japan, it struck like a gong.
The voice of the people has struck like a Halloween prankster in this minuscule bastion of democracy.
"When the confrontation begins," the instructions continued, "strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world".
The image was striking, like a bird's spread wing.
It just strikes like an eclipse or something".
Love especially: it strikes like a thunderclap in Munro's fiction and often as ominously.
"He was as gentle as a lamb, but could strike like a cobra," he said.
