strike twice
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Has fortune struck twice in one week? I send you out after cheese and you bring home an entire cow?”"
- "Finger and Kane presented the editor with the Bat-Man, who made his debut in Detective Comics #27, dated May 1939, and . . . lightning struck twice. Another hit! Another Superman? Well, no. Oh, there were, and are, similarities: the double identity, the cape and tights, the devotion to crime-fighting."
- "And to Alistair and Jessica, from Seven Years to Sin, who inspired me to write Gideon and Eva's story. I'm so glad the inspiration struck twice!"
- "Lenny threw himself into a shell hole hoping that lightning wouldn't strike twice. The bombs hit horses, caisson , and even the chow line by the rolling kitchen that Len would have been standing in if he hadn't been writing a letter to Maggie instead. It was as if it were raining flesh and entrails."
- "He wished he could have a clear answer. With Ciara he had known immediately that she was the one for him. Had he expected lightning to strike twice in his life? Chapter Ten Charlie greeted Lesley with an exuberant bark and."