strike home
Example Sentences
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He needs it more than he lets on, and slowly, O’Sullivan’s script reveals that the particularities of “Romeo and Juliet” strike home for Dan in a way he never anticipated.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024
Rarely does a question from an audience member strike home.
From Salon • May 15, 2023
“The issues of race and racism probably strike home to me a little more, sometimes even daily, than others here,” she said.
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2020
As you stand at the top of the mine shaft kitted out in helmet and cap-lamp the realisation that this is no Disney-like simulation starts to strike home.
From BBC • May 6, 2013
The infinite pathos of Jabez Puffwater's blind devotion to one whom he had never seen will not fail to strike home to the stoniest heart.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn
