How to Use strike back in a Sentence

strike back

phrasal verb

• One is that the court should strike back hard against the government.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• Just call it the Empire State strikes back, with a bold counter punch to Abbott.
  — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Instead, white people across the South struck back with a vengeance.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• The United States must strike back at those who attacked us.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• Sadier is now striking back out on her own for a new album and tour.
  — Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2024
• For a sit-in at a lunch counter, they were told, sit up straight, be courteous and don’t strike back.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• The vampires strike back for a fifth season of this satirical series.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• The United States should, instead, have cut to the chase and immediately struck back.
  — Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
• Kyiv struck back, destroying over a dozen of Russia's ships over the following months.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2024
• The United States, Britain and their allies have been striking back against Houthi positions.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Communication failed, Dmytro said, and the pair could not contact their mortar team to strike back.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Ukraine’s imperative was to strike back before the Russians had time to regroup.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Greer's case will be revisited by the lower court, giving Greer a second chance to strike back at Kiwi Farms.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• The union’s members voted 99% in favor of a strike back in May, and pilots are ready to strike upon release from the National Mediation Board.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Israel struck back with airstrikes, including one that flattened a 14-story tower that held Hamas offices.
  — Times Photography Wire Services, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• In response to the growing Nizari threat, Sunni authorities struck back with their own ruthless methods.
  — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Then, amid howls of outrage among the Pakistani public and political class, Pakistan struck back Thursday.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Iran has struck back against Israel in the past by targeting Israeli citizens in foreign countries.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2023
• Any government would have struck back, and Hamas maximized the suffering of civilians by using them as human shields.
  — Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The union voted to authorize a strike back in May if new contract negotiations stalled during the summer.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• The gunship crew tracked the attackers in their vehicle and struck back, killing several of them, according to U.S. officials.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• DBs strike back The secondary fought back on Day 2 after giving up a high percentage of completions and scoring plays in 2-on-2 slot coverage drills against the wideouts in Friday's camp opener.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
• Stoner artists struck back hard at prohibition and provided the soundtrack activists needed to get weed legal.
  — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• His supporters quickly struck back, claiming the video was actually a deepfake.
  — Lucía Cholakian Herrera, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Several major staffing groups have walked out over pay and working conditions in the ongoing dispute, which began with a nursing strike back in November 2022.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• An exploited worker at an Arkansas chicken plant strikes back with a kidnapping, which leads to other brutal events in Edgar winner Cranor's crime thriller.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
• Surely the world would understand the legitimacy of Israel striking back.
  — Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
• As Russian forces target troop locations and strike civilian infrastructure with artillery, mortars and aerial bombs, the Ukrainians are digging into positions in the woods and on the sides of roads — and striking back.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Heidi Levine and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Other gangs linked to Moïse’s rivals struck back, erecting barricades, burning vehicles, and looting.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• As Russian forces target troop locations and strike civilian infrastructure with artillery fire, mortar rounds and aerial bombs, the Ukrainians are digging into positions in the woods and on the sides of roads — and striking back.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024