terror-stricken
Example Sentences
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The second dose, he tells patients with terror-stricken faces, will fall on a date during the summer holidays.
From New York Times
Trillion-dollar markets for government debt, the basic foundation of the financial system, lurched up and down in terror-stricken cycles.
From The Guardian
She struck her face with both her hands, dug her nails into her terror-stricken cheeks, and then she scratched.
From Literature
One of the most chilling photos shows a boy staring with terror-stricken eyes illuminated by a light from Border Patrol agents.
From Washington Post
The photographer took young Herman’s picture minutes later, and, though he no longer possessed a copy in 1895, he could still remember “the thin terror-stricken face of that bare footed, home-spun clad boy.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
