Below you will find example sentences with "struck down". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Struck Down in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: struck
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.5 words

Words in this phrase

struck down

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • struck can mean: simple past and past participle of strike Frequent word
  • down can mean: From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

supreme court struck down affirmative action 2× atd was struck down by wetherell 1× aug 18 struck down a critical 1× city judge struck down a petition 1× court majorities struck down affirmative action 1× d been struck down 1× design was struck down for likely 1× federal judge struck down the law 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a carson city 1× a federal judge 1× almost 3 500 1× and the potential 1× both men were 1× but the wisconsin 1×

Common sentence endings:

been struck down 2× a decade ago 1× be struck down 1× cancer in 2013 1× case involving harvard 1× down in december 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

court 9× law 5× supreme 5× cancer 3× june 3× affirmative 3× action 3× two 2× judge 2× federal 2× lawmakers 2× map 2×

Related phrases

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down touched down doubled down burned down sit down

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around struck:

struck deal 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

struck deal strongly opposed strongly condemned strongly agreed strong winds strong underlying

Just after it in the phrase index:

structural engineers structural unemployment structured programming stuart broad student association student body

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

struck deal

Same ending:

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "struck down" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as supreme court struck down affirmative action, atd was struck down by wetherell, court, law and supreme stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with shut down, knocked down, sat down and struck deal, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with struck down

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Parole + ATD was struck down by Wetherell in March. (9 words)

Molnar focused on her recovery rather than dwelling on why she'd been struck down. (15 words)

But the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down in June an ordinance in Outagamie County’s Town of Buchanan. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

When the court struck down “Safer at Home,” it carved out an exception, stating without explanation in two footnotes in the majority opinion that it was not striking down the state’s powers to close schools. (36 words)

And the potential beneficiary of those reviews is the Republican leadership of the state General Assembly, which had both drawn the political map and enacted the voter ID law that the court struck down in December. (36 words)

A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday, Aug. 18, struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

When the court struck down “Safer at Home,” it carved out an exception, stating without explanation in two footnotes in the majority opinion that it was not striking down the state’s powers to close schools.

A Carson City judge struck down a petition initiative that aimed to codify the right to reproductive freedom in the Nevada constitution.

A federal judge struck down the law two years later, and lawmakers went on to rewrite the law to be narrower.

Almost 3,500 lawyers voted on the motion, which would have struck down the society’s right to require such courses.

And the potential beneficiary of those reviews is the Republican leadership of the state General Assembly, which had both drawn the political map and enacted the voter ID law that the court struck down in December.

A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday, Aug. 18, struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports.

Both men were struck down by cancer: Siskel died of brain cancer in 1999, and Ebert, following a brutal bout with thyroid and jaw cancer, in 2013.

But the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down in June an ordinance in Outagamie County’s Town of Buchanan.

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Challengers have filed objections to Alabama’s new map, which lawmakers passed after their previous design was struck down for likely diluting the power of Black voters.

Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said Mr. Ackman’s comments set back inclusion efforts only months after the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education in a case involving Harvard.

Even if the law is struck down, that’s little comfort to Montana creators who have already spent months operating in a sense of nervous panic, constantly questioning the future of their livelihood.

He had sweetly struck down the discourse of Nehruvian secularism and brought the BJP to the centre of Indian politics.

However, in the landmark 2013 ruling in тАШLily Thomas v Union of IndiaтАЩ, the Supreme Court struck down Section 8(4) of the RPA as unconstitutional.

In an interview with Scripps News, Debbie Veney, the alliance's vice president of communications and marketing, said because of that distinction, she believes the decision will be struck down.

In a pair of decisions announced June 29, court majorities struck down affirmative action in college admissions, ruling against UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University, the nation’s oldest public and private colleges, respectively.

Maryland's proposal includes a requirement for local voting changes to receive preapproval, mirroring core provisions of the federal law that was struck down by the Supreme Court a decade ago.

Molnar focused on her recovery rather than dwelling on why she'd been struck down.

Of course, the intrepid and brave Mitsuki is eager to take her chances with approaching the alien onboard the ship, despite knowing that all that has gone before her has been struck down.

Parole + ATD was struck down by Wetherell in March.

Sen. Ed Markey speaks to reporters Boston after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action on Thursday, June 29, 2023.

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