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
Even as analysts celebrated the Friday jobs report, many were also careful to strike a note of caution.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2021
One of the few film-makers to strike a note of despair is Kristen Stewart, whose film is a glitchy self-portrait of anxiety and insomnia.
From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2020
I would fain strike a note that should be more heroical; but the ground of all youth’s suffering, solitude, hysteria, and haunting of the grave, is nothing else than naked, ignorant selfishness.
From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis
