They have also struck before the season, during spring training.

Will it strike 5 million before the year is over?

He was struck and killed by a car on his way home from work two weeks before the wedding.

Whatever the cause it will strike me before I can escape.

He struck the open pages of the book before him with his flat hand.

"Is there any possibility that they may strike before we are prepared?"

That is a very different tone than the administration struck just a year ago, before Sept. 11.

Simpson struck form in his last two matches before the Tests.

At several times during the meeting, the buyers struck an evangelical note, like a coach before a big game.

Suddenly, a dark object fell from the sky striking the bird just before her.