be stricken with
Example Sentences
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One in 8 American women will be stricken with the disease at some point during their lifetimes.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
One in eight American women will be stricken with the disease at some point during their lifetimes.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2021
It proves to be a harbinger of doom: Many of the laborers — and Roebling himself — would be stricken with decompression sickness or “caisson disease.”
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2018
Still, he was sure that eventually the Mashco would be stricken with an epidemic, and their remoteness would make it difficult to treat.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
