strike one as being
Example Sentences
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“He can strike one as being a very formal person, and he has cultivated that to some degree,” said Marie Arana, a Peruvian-American writer and former editor of The Washington Post’s books section.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
The songs of yesterday, when revived, strike one as being very antiquated, and the songs of the day before yesterday also rarely bear the test; but what of the songs of the sixties?
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
This does not strike one as being an unseemly pandering to popular favor.
From Love Conquers All by Gluyas Williams
His features, too, somehow or other, strike one as being those of a gentleman; which is all the more singular when, as a fact, he told me he had been brought up in a workhouse.
From For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Yet when one looked more closely at him, he did not strike one as being the sort of man who would idle his life away on the pavements or in the clubs.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
