terror-stricken
Example Sentences
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Shelley Duvall's most famous film role was probably Wendy, the terror-stricken wife of Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
Meanwhile, a terror-stricken Sandy desperately tried to comprehend what he was witnessing on that tiny screen.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
When the initial wave passed, and I still stood there, wracked with nausea and terror-stricken but alive, he was still there, too, his hand pressed against the window.
From Nature ● Jun. 4, 2019
When the horsemen and their rivals in armour swept across the Santerre plateau, driving terror-stricken Germans in front of them, they did the most amazing things.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2018
They were all terror-stricken except Achilles’ son Neoptolemus, and indeed what they faced was no slight danger.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
