It struck him as a very curious thing that the simplest explanations were so often quite difficult to make.

They acknowledge that debutante balls may strike many as a thing of the past.

"You're all right, buddy," Trip said, which struck him as a perfectly ridiculous thing to say.

At first it struck her as an absurd thing to own.

However, this quartz, being where it was, struck me as an interesting thing.

I knew what she meant, of course, but it still struck me as an odd, even insensitive, thing to say.

As a mother of two, it struck me as a very risky thing to do.

Suddenly the civilian tendency to talk matters to a slow death struck her as a blessed thing.

But it struck him as an odd thing to covet.

This struck me as a particularly silly thing to do.