strike one as
Example Sentences
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In retrospect, such escapades may strike one as profligate.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
“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 idea of Atlantic salmon harvested in a West Virginia warehouse might not strike one as appealing as salmon that hails from a Norwegian fjord.
From Time • Nov. 18, 2014
The first public confession can be stirring, but the tenth is likely to strike one as the same old thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are key-signatures, but they strike one as having been put in place as a mere yielding to what M. Debussy doubtless regards indulgently as an amiable and harmless prejudice.
From Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Gilman, Lawrence
