Sentence examples for struck the keys from inspiring English sources

The receptionist punched in Tyler McCoy, and I could tell by the way she struck the keys that she was getting suspicious or impatient.

Just so had she, on countless other occasions, sat at that typewriter and struck the keys, blow by blow, against her own country in the interests of the Soviets".

The gentleman, as if by chance, struck the keys of the open piano, beside which they were sitting, gradually began to run over one of Beethoven's own compositions, made a thousand errors, and speedily blundered one passage so thoroughly, that the composer condescended to stretch out his hand and put him right.

He told the jury that in typing up Greenglass' description of the atom bomb Ethel Rosenberg had "struck the keys, blow by blow, against her own country".

Instead of the note ending after he struck the key, he wanted to shape and slide the sound from the piano just as a guitarist could bend notes.

Despite a brace of half-chances off the edge, the pair extended their partnership to 62 at an almost imperceptible rate until Swann, to the delight of his home crowd, struck the key blow.

He strikes the keys but does not play anything, & pretends to sing.

One day I found you sitting at my piano, randomly striking the keys with your index finger.

Sometimes they strike the keys precisely and carefully, picking out nimble little lines that give this band's punk some whimsy.

In this piece Mr. Say vividly evokes the sound of hammered Turkish string instruments by damping the piano strings with his hand and striking the keys sharply to plunk out the melody.

What he never doubted was that music was meant to be his life, ever since he had listened, curled up under the piano like a small burrowing animal, to the eerie vibrations of his father striking the keys.