Sentence examples for struck one as from inspiring English sources

Her velvety mezzo voice could sound tremulous, as if being forced a bit, bat Miss Tread well‐Carroll struck one as ‐a singer with an immediate future.

Everything that should have struck one as odd — the cartoonish way that the boys, in their confessions, talked about the rape itself — was taken as proof of the boys' perversity.

Some had christened him "Bud Light" but that always struck one as out of touch.

Snog me!" The whole thing strikes one as, how you say?, tacky.

If turning the W.N.B.A. into a sort of basketball petri dish strikes one as perverse, such efforts are not without precedent.

The idea of freeloading on strangers' networks strikes one as dodgy (or too good to be true), but the reality is more nuanced.

Comparing Barack Obama and Donald Trump on any dimension might strike one as an exercise in the absurd.

Whether this will strike one as reassuring will perhaps depend on temperament, but there is no doubt that Rattle is in so many ways the perfect orchestral director for the present day.

In Bill Buford's 2006 cooking memoir, "Heat," he touched briefly on the term "Latins," which, like "Orientals," can strike one as tin-eared.

Mr. Darabont doesn't strike one as living in fear of armed bands of rabid Kaelites intent on carrying out her orders, but he knows to tread carefully.

But, as soon as one is doing absolutely nothing, the intolerability strikes one as being not so much a freedom as a prison, walled on every side by limitless possibility—"It was impossible to choose because I could live anywhere".