6 sentences with 'striking'
Example sentences and phrases with the word striking and other words derived from it.
• « The most striking peculiarity is that during these periods of sleep when we dream, there is a total absence of muscle tone - a virtual paralysis - with the exception of the eye muscles and the diaphragmatic or respiratory muscles. »
• « A striking consequence of the brain power of Homo sapiens was the creation of both art and spirituality. »
• « In many ways, the City of Ladies was the first truly feminist work in European history, and it is striking that it was supported and listened to by elite men because of its obvious intellectual gifts despite its own deep-rooted sexism. »
• « In a striking parallel, the efficiency of cotton production increased to keep pace with textile manufacturing in Britain, despite the absence of major new technologies, apart from the invention of the cotton gin in 1794. »
• « The most striking death toll of the war was the Battle of the Somme, a disastrous British offensive in 1916 in which 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day alone - there were more British soldiers killed and wounded in the first three days of the Battle of the Somme than Americans killed in World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. »