A giant bird, with fierce talons, merciless curved beak, strikes at the helpless captor.

He said that birds could easily strike the towerin overcast skies with low visibility.

I see wild birds, and impulses wilder than the wildest birds strike from my wild heart.

More rarely, a bird may dive-bomb and strike the intruder's (usually a cyclist's) head with its chest.

The birds had struck Stephen with their wings.

It turned into the second run when the bird, probably an American White Pelican, struck the plane.

The wreckage was in a straight line, and apparently no birds had struck the engines, Mr. Black said.

But the bird never struck me as all that attractive.

The grounded bird prepared to lunge for his neck as a bolt of red flame struck it in the side.

On one occasion a bird struck the engine of her plane in bad weather while she was in flight.