strike a note
Example Sentences
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The image of a fully loaded, 80,000-pound driverless truck weaving around cars on a super-highway at 65 mph or more may strike a note of terror.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024
Whenever a new strain pops up, public health officials try to strike a note between caution and reassurance.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2021
Mark Green, the head of USAID, America’s development agency, used the ministerial to strike a note that was both familiar and contentious.
From Economist • Jul. 27, 2018
Ideally both sides can agree on one voice in which to talk to Kim Jong-un, a voice that would strike a note between the two very different ones they are now striking.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2018
Doria still lay in the Valley of the Shadow unconscious, perhaps fortunately, of the stealthy footsteps and muffled sounds that strike a note of agony through a house of death.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
