The dawn of the oilage was fairlyrecent. Although the stuff was used towaterproofboats in the Middle East 6,000 yearsago, extracting it in earnestbegan only in 1859 after an oilstrike in Pennsylvania. The firstbarrels of crudefetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
To punish the just is not good, nor strikeprinces for equity.
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the nighthours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he nevershowedhimself to the face of the day.
The bank robberstruck on the 2nd and 5th of May.
The first thing to strikemy eye was a beautifulpagoda. Tragedystruck when his brother was killed in a bush fire.
The workersstruck for a weekbefore the newcontractwent through.
Golf has alwaysstruck me as a waste of time.
The newsstruck a sombrechord.
DefenderChrisBairdstrucktwiceearly in the first half to helpFulhammove out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on managerMarkHughes.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
to strikemoney
to strike the mind with surprise; to strikesomebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror
The proposedplanstrikes me favourably. May the Lordstrikedown those sinners! I was struckdumb with astonishment.
The frigate has struck, sir! We'vebeaten them, the lily-livers!
“Strike the tent there!”—was the nextorder. As I hintedbefore, this whalebone marquee was neverpitchedexcept in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirtyyears, the order to strike the tent was wellknown to be the nextthing to heaving up the anchor.
Their only shot of the firstperiod was a long-rangestrike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamelywide.
to strike the mind with surprise; to strikesomebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror
The pitcherthrew a real zinger and struck him out.
सजा की शुरुआत में प्रयुक्त
Strike the doorsharply with your foot and see if it comesloose. A bulletstruck him. The shipstruck a reef.
वाक्य के अंत में प्रयुक्त
The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoninow has the strike.
They were oftenhiredmuscleduringlaborstrikes.
They were ordered to force-feed the prisoners on hungerstrike.
Meaning of strike for the defined word.
व्याकरण की दृष्टि से, इस शब्द "strike" एक एक संज्ञा, और अधिक विशेष रूप से, एक गणनीय संज्ञाएं है। यह भी एक क्रिया, और अधिक विशेष रूप से, एक अकर्मक क्रियाएं और एक सकर्मक क्रिया है।
पार्ट ऑफ़ स्पीच पदानुक्रम (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)