strike up

How To Use strike up In A Sentence

• So, strike up a self-talk and admit the truth by saying to yourself: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement
• I was keen to strike up a conversation with him.
• Percussion is practiced with the fingers alone or with the aid of a special percussion hammer and an object to strike upon known as a pleximeter. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield. My Brilliant Career
• Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
• According to Walker, only male katydids and crickets strike up a tune, and when they do, they invariably have one thing on their mind: sex.
• The musicians arrived and began to strike up the lively harps, lutes, joyful drums and gay flutes.
• It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
• He has become suspicious of anyone trying to strike up a conversation. The Sun
• It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.