Example sentences for: stricken

How can you use “stricken” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Boas was puzzled by a Japanese paper that kept referring to stricken mass distributions.

  • Apart from his stricken expressions and a couple of nasty wounds, there's nothing even to suggest that he's damned by taking justice into his own hands.

  • The Times off-leads another New York story: The city's just-identified mosquito-borne West Nile virus has stricken nearly twice as many people--37--and over a much wider area than was previously thought.

  • Shelby stood like one stricken.

  • At times, he's believably stricken, at others believably affectless--as if every emotion has been wrapped up so tightly for fear of discovery that there's no such thing as a "natural" response.


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