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
Brabender did strike a note of caution, saying “the Senate is always an exception”.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2018
If to readers remote from the facts and the feeling of the hour they perhaps strike a note of scarcely intelligible emotion yet our story cannot spare them.
From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by Skrine, John Huntley