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strikingly
[ strahy-king-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that is impressive, noticeable, or conspicuous:
What I recall most is how the northern and southern facades, identical in construction, look strikingly different in the half light before dawn.
The unknown actors playing the lead roles are strikingly photogenic and elegant against the film’s background of social unrest and urban blight.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of strikingly1
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Example Sentences
Displays of malformations were obviously often strikingly offensive, none more so than the “Hottentot Venus.”
Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.
“What he did to the Church internally is a sadder story, most strikingly in his failure on the abuse crisis,” Berry says.
Dr. Heim, or the man who looked strikingly like him, kept walking, pretending he did not recognize her.
On first impression, the two make a strikingly disparate pair.
The early recognition of pictured objects, of which certain animals have a measure, is often strikingly discerning.
The head is strikingly like, and the whole figure worked out of the stone with great artistic skill.
A simple experiment of Boussingault's illustrates this absorption very strikingly.
This daughter, Agnes by name, was at this time about twenty, and was a strikingly beautiful girl.
On the 9th, 11th, and 13th of May occurs the Lemuria, a ceremony of a strikingly different order.
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