Example sentences for: stricken

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

  • 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.

  • When I read about Eugenie's cosmetic surgery, I was stricken by a thought: "You mean IOC members can demand just about anything in exchange for their votes on an Olympic host city, and I chose to be a sportswriter ? I've settled for the Rangers' pre-game buffet all these years when I could've had a free nose job instead?

  • USA Today's front is mum on Waco and its lead is an EPA audit revealing that the nation's public water systems are stricken by tens of thousands of cases of previously undocumented unsafe drinking water.

  • The word 'may' has been stricken.


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