(1) At the end of her speech, she struck a note of warning about the risks involved in the project.

(2) His speech struck a note of sadness when he mentioned those who had died in the war.

(3) The name, and the music, struck a note with the local indie community and the festival began to grow.

(4) Let me strike a note of hopefulness :this job will not be as hard as you think.

(5) But we didn't really strike a note together until maybe three or four years later.

(6) The book is written in spare prose that seems to want to strike a note of manly reticence.