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Stricken
"Stricken" in a Sentence (15 examples)
They were horror stricken at the news.
He was a strong boy, full of life, before he was stricken with the plague.
At the age of ten Caroline was stricken with typhus. The disease permanently stunted her growth.
Heavy rain throughout the night has hampered efforts to rescue survivors from the stricken ferry.
"But when, through sly Ulysses' envious hate, / he left the light – alas! the tale ye know –, / stricken, I mused indignant on his fate, / and dragged my days in solitude and woe."
Italy's spike in mortalities exceeded worst-case forecasts, as well as the overall rate in other stricken countries.
She was stricken with an incurable disease.
Ziri was stricken with grief.
A new mobile phone app using satellite images is helping Maasai cattle herders in Kenya find rich pastures and water in their drought stricken terrain. The device also tells them places to avoid to reduce encounters with wild animals.
Part of Tom's testimony was stricken from the record.
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The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed.
At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
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