Struck my mind

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"Let's get out of –" And then I froze, as a brilliant idea struck my mind with vicious force.

CR: I saw another article today that struck my mind, that took — at least how many garnered my attention, which is how many people now no longer subscribe to any kind of television, not satellite, or cable, or over the air, obviously.

Yet every element struck my nervous mind as a cliche designed to intimidate the uninitiated.

Along my path were four structures, that struck my unformed mind as off the norm, and thus adventurous in the cookie-cutter recipe book of New York real estate.

-- but my dad was making his brand of crazy seem like the fun kind (staying up all night and shooting raccoons from his bedroom window) whereas my mom's fixation on me peeing on her flowers struck my four year-old mind as a buzz kill.

When I start to count my blessings, I see their stricken faces in my mind as they tell their tragic stories.

The story struck home; it cast my mind back to Munich, the nearest big city to where I grew up, so I could relate to the horror and distress.

Two months later, I still can't strike the image from my mind.

Two things that Obama said were, to my mind, especially striking.

"In my mind, lightning never strikes twice in the same place so I am still philosophical that you get on the flight and you go about your life.

"I was down at my doctor's office, saw all the people and the first thing that came to my mind was the terrorists struck again, you know?" Then she heard that a city councilman had been shot, apparently by someone he knew, and Ms. Edwards, along with the rest of a city living in the emotional shadow of Sept. 11, relaxed a little.