Sentence examples for struck upwards from inspiring English sources
Baghdad has been struck upwards of 1,000 times, Iraqi officials claim, with the vast majority of those attacks targeting civilian areas frequented by the majority Shia sect, such as market places, shopping strips, religious gatherings and shrines.
Philip moved south around the new defensive line and struck upwards at the heart of the Duchy, now facing little resistance.
Although the former was implemented in the Remington No. 2, the machine was fundamentally an "upstrike" design, meaning the typebars struck upwards against the underside of the platen.
In India, confronted by Porus' elephant corps, the Macedonians opened their ranks to envelop the elephants and used their sarissas to strike upwards and dislodge the elephants' handlers.
This method is also known as striking upward, using the upper-cut elbow: Keep the arm close to the body and swing elbow upwards, twisting the hand inwards and bending the elbow sharply.
MacLeod and Campbell both went down in a hail of gunfire; Colonel Moore reported that MacLeod had been struck by upwards of 20 musket balls.
With lightning speed, strike it with your quickest hand with an upward action start from lower position and strike upwards).
But the reforms would strike at the most pernicious, unfair sorts of income disparity and allow more people to move upwards.
Move upwards along your body.
As of 2 05 pm ET, more than 34,000 calls changed hands at the September $50 strike, and upwards of 30,700 calls were exchanged at the $50 strike expiring in October.
