: attracting attention or notice through unusual or conspicuous qualities
a place of striking beauty
strikingly
adverb
Examples of striking in a Sentence
The poverty of the city is striking.
There is a striking resemblance between the girls.
an actress known for her striking good looks
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Subs are making $500 a day, but there are fewer subs than teachers and striking teachers forfeit pay.
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Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Most striking, the share of students who believe violence is acceptable fell by about 30% in a single year — even as FIRE reports rising national tolerance for violent disruption.
—Jason Jewell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
So Hendon collaborated with volcanologists Josef Dufek and Joshua Méndez Harper, who were regulars at the same local coffee house and had noted striking similarities between the science of coffee and plumes of volcanic ash, magma, and water.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
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Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Most striking, the share of students who believe violence is acceptable fell by about 30% in a single year — even as FIRE reports rising national tolerance for violent disruption.
—Jason Jewell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
So Hendon collaborated with volcanologists Josef Dufek and Joshua Méndez Harper, who were regulars at the same local coffee house and had noted striking similarities between the science of coffee and plumes of volcanic ash, magma, and water.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for striking
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“Striking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/striking. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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