strike up's Usage Examples:

Kwan spent the second half of the 90s mostly away from the public eye, but managed to strike up some significant collaborations with friends and fellow contemporaries Tats Lau and Anthony Wong Yiu Ming of the former Tat Ming Pair.

Treasure coming from a violent and abusive household, India having rich but inattentive parents - the girls strike up a friendship and their stories begin to.

Her slovenly but good-hearted hard-of-hearing roommate Bodey unrelentingly urges Dottie to strike up a relationship with her portly, fashion-challenged.

While there they strike up relationships with locals that threatens the harmony of their party.

They often visited these inns to be entertained by the talented young women, who did not only sing, but with their knowledge of poetry and the arts could strike up a witty conversation along with serving food and drink.

to strike up a relationship with her portly, fashion-challenged, cigar-chomping twin brother Buddy (who never is seen onstage).

(Latin applaudere, to strike upon, clap) is primarily a form of ovation or praise expressed by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands.

separate lists by FINRA of ten local arbitrators for each category from which each party can strike up to four arbitrators and provide a ranking for the rest.

Although he frightens Nita, they strike up an unusual friendship.

He orders the cithern-players to strike up "The Fox"s Head," with the same interval between (each.

In response the people strike up a stirring hymn to Yarilo.

They not only discover that he has been seeing Hot Coffee, but during a conversation the two strike up in the bus station, meeting for the first time, they discover for the first time that they are married to the same man.

shopper you meet while you"re looking through the racks and with whom you strike up a spontaneous conversation".

Synonyms:

sound off, play,

Antonyms:

underact, immovableness, tightness,