How to Use strike off in a Sentence

strike off

verb
  • Last week, Ismael quit his job at the salon to strike off on his own.
    — Brittany Kriegstein, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Whitewater rafters and kayakers can strike off on their own or enlist one of the many outfitters in the area.
    — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Riyadh seeking peace with Tehran takes one potential ally for a strike off the table.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Seven were struck off Archer, who returned figures of 1-61 from his four overs.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Robert Taylor scored in 44’ with a strike off his right foot just inside the right post to excite the crowd just before halftime.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • 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
  • When the largest earthquake in Taiwan in half a century struck off its east coast, the buildings in the closest city, Hualien, swayed and rocked.
    — Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • This is a group, after all, that is known for being extremely well-prepared to strike off into nature, and who might be very particular about their gear.
    — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Last month, another vessel in its fleet, the Conscience, was damaged in what the group alleged was a drone strike off the coast of Malta.
    — Tahar Rajab, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • This makes security checks just one of many DevOps issues to strike off their to-do list before a product or update is ready to go live.
    — Vladi Sandler, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The closest Miami came on the night was a 64th-minute strike off the crossbar by Franco Negri.
    — The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Similar to the Islanders, the Canadiens play patient and reliable defense, work as a unit, and strike off turnovers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • 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
  • With the state hollowed out and the security forces ineffective, civic leaders from outside the structures of formal politics struck off on their own.
    — John Rapley, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Dibassy’s goal came just moment after Sounders star Jordan Morris’ clanked a powerful strike off the goal post from 20 yards away.
    — Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • His paper was retracted in 2010, and he was struck off the medical register for gross misconduct.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • 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
  • Most modern bird fossils that had been unearthed at that point dated to after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck off the coast of what’s now Mexico 66 million years ago.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The supremacy of the dinosaurs endured until an asteroid that struck off the coast of what’s now Mexico 66 million years ago doomed the dinosaurs to extinction.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The General Medical Council will strike off doctors that have been cleared of a crime by the courts but whose behaviour is still short of the industry’s own standards.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • 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

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