What's the difference between struck and stuck?

Struck


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Strike
  • (p. p.) of Strike
  • () imp. & p. p. of Strike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (2) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (3) HTC needs to move from being star struck fan to star of its own ads.
  • (4) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (5) A balance must be struck between meeting the hospital's needs for additional physicians and meeting the needs of the existing medical staff.
  • (6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
  • (7) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
  • (8) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (9) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (10) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
  • (11) It is what struck me, too, about Gordon Aikman , a 29-year-old Scot with a terminal diagnosis of motor neurone disease.
  • (12) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
  • (13) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (14) It struck the full back's hand, but there was no intent, and the players were very close together.
  • (15) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
  • (16) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
  • (17) London aided Ankara by closing down the Kurdish TV station, MED-TV, in the same month that BAE Systems, Britain's largest arms company, struck an arms deal with Turkey.
  • (18) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
  • (19) Hair ignited in room air only when struck repeatedly at high energy, but easily ignited in 100% oxygen.
  • (20) That's how many times Tony Gwynn struck out during his long career, a total that some players today seem to tally on a ten-game road trip.

Stuck


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stick
  • () imp. & p. p. of Stick.
  • (n.) A thrust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
  • (2) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
  • (3) Labour is in danger of being left behind, of becoming stuck in an anti-pluralist rut.
  • (4) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (5) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (6) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (7) Instead, we're likely to be stuck with more muddling-through.
  • (8) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (9) … I say get stuck in, negotiate hard, fight for Britain.
  • (10) A chemist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment plant was killed on Wednesday when attackers on a motorbike stuck a magnetic bomb to his car.
  • (11) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
  • (12) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
  • (13) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (14) The midfielder's alarming loss of concentration and concession of possession precipitated Gabriel Agbonlahor's winner, crushing already cautious Wearside optimism and ensuring Gus Poyet's side remain stuck to the bottom of the table.
  • (15) Refugees still stuck on Manus Island need to be allowed to move freely, get jobs and be productive members of PNG society – that is, to get on with their lives.
  • (16) The thermode is stuck to the shaved skin on the back of the rat, allowing heat pulses up to 51 degrees C to be applied.
  • (17) But there, stuck behind a glass case in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and having already failed to take off from the shelves of department stores in the United States, Richard Joseph saw what was to become the cornerstone of a new family venture – a chopping board.
  • (18) In a speech last year, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said government should focus on "raising the incomes and the aspirations and the opportunities for the millions of people who are stuck on low incomes".
  • (19) But because all 40 stations are stuck with the fixed costs of separate premises and transmission technology, the savings must be found purely from staff and programming budgets, which must take hits of around 20% to compensate.
  • (20) You made sure that Mairead "stuck to the story", checking with her at every opportunity that she wasn't going to stray, as you put it.