strike in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enter or add to a conversation; to say (something) by way of interruption or addition to a conversation.
Example Sentences
- "But when that Act is over, all is not done; for, that it may have the better Success, the Husband must not presently separate himself from his Wife’s Embraces, lest the Air should suddenly strike in, and so prevent the Issue of their Labours."
- "As sleep is broken, when upon a sudden New light strikes in upon the eyelids closed,"
- "These grandchildren and great-grandchildren would hold it too mean to live in, cold in winter except where the southern sun struck in, and unceiled and not modern anywhere, and not a fit house for them."
- "There did this our Talatamtana or Doctour Hum, thrust himselfe into the thickest rankes of the Noblemen and Gallants, and whatsoeuer they were arguing of, he would not misse to catch hold of, or strike in at the one end, and take the theame out of their mouths,"
- "It is not civil when a Person of Quality hesitates or stops in his discourse, for you to strike in, though with pretence of helping his memory;"
- "[…] he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation, he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius;"