stricken
Example Sentences
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Then, as one day and another and another pass, we are all stricken with seasickness and grow weak from vomiting and dizzy spells.
From Literature
After his liberation, Kulisiewicz, stricken with tuberculosis, dictated “716 songs in many languages to a nurse who realized how valuable this material was.”
What mattered was the look on the youngest’s face, stricken with a fear so great it was as though she herself were in that building.
From Literature
The stricken vessel was later found on a sandbank.
From Barron's
Maduro was at his side the rest of the way: serving in congress, then as foreign minister and vice president before Chávez, stricken with cancer, anointed him successor in 2013.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
