stricken
Example Sentences
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Representatives of nearly 40 organizations in cities across the country have reached out to him for advice on how similar programs might work in their stricken neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times
Filipino sailor George Miranda was racing to help a stricken vessel aboard the tugboat Mussafah 2 when he last spoke to his wife and young daughter.
From Barron's
Years later, Lou shook with tears and reached for his son’s hand in his own mother’s hospital room as she lay stricken with illness.
We are good German children who have been stricken with a mysterious ailment.
From Literature
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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
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