Sentence examples for struck up from from inspiring English sources

There was an air of inevitability as the strains of Bob Marley's "Get Up Stand Up" struck up from a conveniently placed ghetto blaster on wheels as the characters of a subplot of the expenses saga filed out down the court steps to popping flashbulbs after the verdict.

Wet snow blows in from the east, and then after a day or so, the weather pivots and a hard wind strikes up from the west, gusting from its heels.

We struck up a friendship.

Shifting slightly awkwardly in his seat, Cameron first ran into trouble when Letterman asked him who composed the music for Rule Britannia after the band struck up the music from the Last Night of the Proms.

Instead of a giant cane appearing from the wings and pulling off miscreant performers, we have the orchestra, striking up random bits of music from whatever film just won, forcing the winners to get the hell off the stage.

We've had everything from people striking up great conversations with other guests in chats to groups using it laugh and have fun while watching the same program.

Produced between 1980 and 1984, this work is as striking up close as it is from a distance.

Strike up the John Philip Sousa and throw confetti from the windows.

Off stage, each dressed in long gray beards and lab coats, they struck up conversations that ranged from Chomsky to Théâtre du Soleil to Tom Waits.

Strike up the futuristic music!

At 11 34 AM the Seuffert Band struck up "N.Y.C", the tune from the musical comedy "Annie", that Mr. Koch adopted as his campaign song.