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
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
Mark Green, the head of USAID, America’s development agency, used the ministerial to strike a note that was both familiar and contentious.
From Economist • Jul. 27, 2018
Granted that optimism is the only working creed for every-day life, until the millenium arrives a sincere and artistic expression of the sorrows of humanity will always strike a note in oppressed souls.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
