stricken

Example Sentences

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His eyes sprang open again, and he caught a glimpse of his own stricken expression in his parents’ dresser mirror.

From Literature

An animal charity is having to pay out about £400,000 on vet bills each year as call-outs to help stricken dogs increase "massively", staff say.

From BBC

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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