The question struck her very funny and she laughed for a quarter of an hour.
This question so struck her to the heart that she could not reply.
It was more of a statement than a question and the barb struck home.
But from tense vibrations he could tell his question struck home.
At any other time the question would have struck Newt as simple.
If this question struck her as irrelevant, she did not treat it so.
The question struck right at the heart of the problem with this car.
The question struck him like a blow to the stomach.
"Your first question, as you called it, struck the wrong chord."
Again, the question struck painfully near the mark of her thoughts.