horror-struck

Example Sentences

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I listened, horror-struck, on my drive to school, then watched your carnage on the TVs in my high school auditorium.

From Washington Post

Seeing Bran again, confined to a wheelchair because of that fall, Jamie looks decidedly guilty and horror-struck.

From The Verge

After all, what could be more irritating, and even offensive, than to have someone photographing you while you mourn, horror-struck, the burning of a relative’s body?

From New York Times

A few months later, she saw a newspaper photograph of a horror-struck Vietnamese woman holding her dead baby.

From Washington Times

Even without all the abrupt cutaways to a horror-struck Susan suddenly slamming the manuscript shut, it would be clear that her ex-husband’s novel isn’t just one hell of a harrowing yarn.

From Los Angeles Times