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How to pronounce striking in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms contact, impinging
Type of natural event, occurrence, occurrent, happening
Has types touching, flick, engagement, collision, hit, touch, impact, interlocking, mesh, meshing
Derivation strike
Type Words
Synonyms dramatic, spectacular
Derivation strikingness


his striking good looks always created a sensation.
Type Words
Synonyms hit, hitting
Type of touch, touching
Has types fly ball, ground ball, groundball, grounder, header, bunt, contusion, crash, fly, hopper, plunk, plunker, scorcher, screamer, smash
Derivation strike
Type Words
Synonyms outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular
Derivation strikingness


a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center.
a striking resemblance between parent and child.

Examples of striking

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The Bulls are within striking distance of first place in the Eastern Conference.
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Edwards matches her counterpart by striking out the first two batters she faces.
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The contrast between the old and new churches is striking, and not just in size.
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She pitched seven innings allowing four runs on four hits and striking out five.
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She pitched seven innings allowing six runs on six hits while striking out four.
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She pitched seven innings allowing one run on four hits while striking out five.
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She pitched seven innings allowing two runs on nine hits while striking out six.
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She pitched seven innings allowing five runs on six hits while striking out one.
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Beth Haley fired a five-hitter in the opener, striking out nine and walking two.
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  • Contact: the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"
  • Dramatic: sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation"
  • Hit: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
  • Outstanding: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in ...
  • (strikingly) in a striking manner; "this was strikingly demonstrated"; "the evidence was strikingly absent"
  • (strikingness) salience: the state of being salient
  • Striking is the first independent release from Francis and the Lights.
  • (STRIKE) S.T.R.I.K.E. is a fictional, comic-book counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe. The organization, that often deals with superhuman threats, was introduced in Captain Britain Weekly #17, as the United Kingdom's version of the United Nations' S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Strike is a Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlu00F6ndorff. The film is broadly a docudrama. It covers the formation of Solidarity. The action centers around work and labor organizing in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdau0144sk, Poland.