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Example sentences for: struck

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My girlfriend was attempting to find a book for a Christmas present and had struck out at about half a dozen bookstores around Manhattan.
Returning to my childhood Catholic parish for Easter Mass a couple of years ago, I was struck by the thought that the service (a term never applied to Catholic worship in my altar boy days in the early 1960s) would have scandalized past pastors.
-- Has the Frugal Gourmet struck you as just a little paranoid lately?
That's always struck me as strange.
Iwas struck by this proposition about a month ago when I spent some time with my son in Los Angeles.