How to Use strike off in a Sentence

strike off

verb
  • Haddish turned heads on the red carpet thanks to her striking off-the-shoulder dress.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Then, just as his difference-making form was returning on the field, tragedy struck off the field.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Seven were struck off Archer, who returned figures of 1-61 from his four overs.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Two days after our interview, one of her six cargo ships stuck in the Persian Gulf was struck off a port near Dubai.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • To open the scoring, Kyrou struck off the rush, receiving a sweeping pass at the defensive blue line and zooming all the way up ice for a goal.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The country is still recovering from a powerful quake that struck off the central island of Cebu less than two weeks ago.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Four of the earthquakes struck off the coast in the Cook Inlet and the Gulf of Alaska, while three more struck inland.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The president has amped up the pressure on Maduro with at least 14 maritime strikes off the coast of South America.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • While the older hand presses might be able to strike off 350 papers a day, steam presses could produce up to 4,000 pages in an hour.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Tassy opened the scoring with a power-play strike, but Dartmouth answered later in the first period on a strike off the stick of Hank Cleaves.
    — Barry Scanlon, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • India’s Supreme Court has ruled that while those struck off from the voter list have the right to appeal, the election timetable in West Bengal should not be delayed.
    — Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • Oil prices are rising this morning after the United Kingdom said three ships were struck off Iran’s coast — one in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Multiple earthquakes struck off the southern coast of Alaska on Monday, marking the latest cluster of seismic events in a region already known as one of the world’s most active earthquake zones.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In at least one strike off the South American nation, Venezuelan officials claimed the victims were not members of the drug cartel, reported Reuters last month.
    — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Two earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday, rattling communities along the Pacific Northwest shoreline.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Data on how many of those belong to eligible voters is hard to come by, but CNN heard from more than a dozen voters who said they had been struck off the list and were unable to get back on due to unclear rules and reluctant local officials.
    — Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • What To Know The USGS reported that two separate earthquakes struck off Japan's northeastern coast within about an hour of each other.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Ireland lost three fixtures against the West Indies due to weather this summer, a tour by Afghanistan was cancelled, and a visit by Australia for last August was also struck off because of financial reasons.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Three foreign ships were struck off the coast of Iraq and the United Arab Emirates overnight, authorities said, the latest in a flurry of incidents in or near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
    — Sam Meredith,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The buildup has coincided with recent strikes off the Venezuelan coast, including one confirmed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week that killed four individuals aboard a vessel allegedly tied to drug trafficking.
    — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • According to The New York Times, Hegseth intercepted the Army’s promotion list, which consists mostly of white men, and struck off four officers—two Black men and two women—preventing them from advancing from colonel to brigadier general.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Ferguson is listed as the sole director of the companies, all of which applied in recent days to be struck off the UK’s official Companies House register, where virtually all businesses must file information such as directors’ details and annual returns.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The Ghana international, who spent two years with Leeds between 1995 and 1997, would cap a run of sensational strikes off with a long-range drive against Wimbledon that could arguably be one of the greatest goals of the 33-year Premier League era.
    — Max Mathews, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • With the backing of Liberty Film Production and Remain in Light, Van den Broeck, and Van Marcke struck off on their own to set-up The Searchers, which officially launched in Toronto in September 2015.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025

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