stricken

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

We are good German children who have been stricken with a mysterious ailment.

From Literature

His eyes sprang open again, and he caught a glimpse of his own stricken expression in his parents’ dresser mirror.

From Literature

An animal charity is having to pay out about £400,000 on vet bills each year as call-outs to help stricken dogs increase "massively", staff say.

From BBC

Then, as one day and another and another pass, we are all stricken with seasickness and grow weak from vomiting and dizzy spells.

From Literature