How To Use Strike up In A Sentence
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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
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I was keen to strike up a conversation with him.
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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
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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
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Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
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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.
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The musicians arrived and began to strike up the lively harps, lutes, joyful drums and gay flutes.
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It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
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He has become suspicious of anyone trying to strike up a conversation.
The Sun
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It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
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Maybe I can strike up a deal - I'll trade Eleven Madison Park my recipe for a proper Manhattan if they'll let me in on the secrets of those cheese puffs.
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It's fun to bring a young child to Venice because you can strike up a conversation with even the crabbiest resident.
Gondola Capsized: Toddler Neared Death
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Wayne fought to find the words he would need to say to try and strike up a conversation with the normally cold fish of a boy he had for a friend whom he had only known for just over a day.
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Peter put away his pipe then rubbed his hands together, trying to strike up a conversation with the young pup.
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She tries to strike up a conversation with him, and he responds in monosyllables, clearly not wanting to talk.
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He tried his best to strike up a conversation with her but she was unresponsive and spoke in monosyllables.
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Over the past two weeks, Obama has sought to strike up a more intimate rapport with Republicans with whom he has long feuded but barely knows, and whose support he needs in a newly divided Washington.
Obama courts key GOP lawmakers with social invites to White House
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We heard a band strike up in the park.
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That was my chance to strike up a conversation, but oh no, my heart had to crap out right then and there.
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He has become suspicious of anyone trying to strike up a conversation.
The Sun
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Strike up the drum and march courageously.
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Why, I thought you would have made all split long since — Come, strike up, tabor and harp, strike up, fiddle and rebeck — dance and be merry today, and let care come tomorrow.
The Abbot
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He would then use the opportunity to strike up a conversation with the discarnate being.
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It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
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He would simply drive unannounced from town to town in a signless car often alone, and would stop and strike up conversations with people on the street.
Your Right Hand Thief
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strike up a friendship
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I sat down next to her and tried to strike up a conversion about old times - but she was aloof and distant.
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One of the problems I see the newcomer to saltwater fly fishing do when they feel a fish is give a hefty strike upwards as they would in trout fishing.
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We heard a band strike up in the park.
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Strike up a convo with the girl sitting next to you.
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Dmowski -- may strike up a friendly accord with Russia, abandoning definitely and formally all claims to so-called historic Poland, disinteresting themselves in all the Baltic problems which concern
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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I was keen to strike up a conversation with him.
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I find it difficult to strike up a conversation with a stranger.
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strike up a conversation
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So therefore, why wouldn't I be as likely to strike up, or have strucken up (can I say that?), a conversation with another woman while traveling?
Thanks and a Rumination
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Actually, here in Hollywood where almost everyone in a coffee shop has a laptop rather than a book, the fact that a woman is reading a book at all probably tells Bob everything he needs to know to sidle up beside her and strike up a conversation.
Allison Hill: Literary Seductions
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Strike up a conversation with an old man sitting about, and his disjoined (if not confusing) narration will take you so easily back to the olden times of the Republic (founded in 1912).
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I have a fondness for little old guys like these fellows and often try to find a way to strike up a conversation.
