Struck example sentences

And she saw it all again, last Saturday — saw him ghost past the lumbering defenders, heard the fifty thousand catch their breath as he hovered momentarily over the ball, and then the explosion of sound as he struck it crisply into the goal, the sudden thunderous eruption of exultant approbation.Such big, bright-looking shops! What glittering displays of clothes and other merchandise! Such big crowds! Struck dumb with wonder, alli gaped at everything.I struck at the water as I went down, expending my strength as one in a nightmare figurehts an irresistible force.When the world 'bearer' is struck off by drawing a line, the cheque becomes an order cheque.The confused bandsmen thought this was the end of the ceremony and struck up a closing song.I struck it sharply with the side of my fist and the drawer flew open to reveal a shallow space underneath, a secret drawer.Ah, how well I remember it, that last lesson! All at once the church-clock struck twelve.Tilly Smith (a British school girl) was able to save many lives when the tsunami struck Phuket beach in Thailand.Suppose it struck, what was the medicine I had to take? There were no medicines in the room.He had naturally been thinking of his rattraps when suddenly he was struck by the idea that the whole world about him — the whole world with its lands and seas, its cities and villages — was nothing but a big rattrap.” The tramp took a step forward and struck the table with his fist.But when she heard her voice again through the sound equipment, she was struck dumb.Tsunami or the harbour wave struck havoc in the Indian Ocean on the 26 December 200 The wave was the result of the earthquake that had its epicenter close to the western boundary of Sumatra.But suddenly she saw a young cow lying dead by the roadside, just where it had been struck by some fast-moving vehicle.I watched dumbstruck as a hundred carefully sorted documents came raining down in a fluttery cascade, coins bounced to a variety of noisy oblivions and the now-lidless tin of tobacco rolled crazily across the concourse disgorging its contents as it went.