What is "struck out"

Usage examples of "struck out".

Because, face it, he was scared shitless that shed given up on him and struck out on her own.

The Progenitors had struck out for the stars in order to escape the cycle of self-destruction the rest of humanity had seemed caught in.

It stopped a few of the crew and two more went down as the Captain struck out with his fists.

There are memories of leaping and lurching over obstacles of every sort, with that torrent of wind and shrieking sound growing moment by moment, and seeming to curl and twist purposefully around me as it struck out wickedly from the spaces behind and beneath.

Suddenly they stopped again, paused, struck out the time afresh, formed into lines the width of the public way, and, with their heads low down and their hands high up, swooped screaming off.

But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.

Yet love of life was too strong for me, and so soon as I touched the water, I struck out and began to swim along the side of the ship, keeping myself in her shadow, for I feared lest de Garcia should cause me to be shot at with arrows and musket balls.

Haeen still seemed to be in shock-either from his fist or from his sacrilege-but she followed him silently as Kane struck out on foot.

He was also securely gagged, and the boys, bidding him a hasty, but not specially tender, farewell, struck out, as they fondly hoped, for freedom.

He struck out, pushing the plank, which was very broad and unmanageable.

His master, speedily disentangling himself from his stirrups, struck out boldly for the shore.

But, as the short, sharp agony of suffocation caught him, and the shock of the icy water dispelled the mental intoxication under which he was labouring, he desperately struck out, and, despite the weight of his irons, gained the surface for an instant.

He also knew that Richard Curry had struck out on a path of his own, fixated on the portmaster’.