stricken

Example Sentences

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Her three children were born at Glenn Medical, and Wampler herself was a patient there for two months last year, when she was stricken with pneumonia and internal bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times

So, there is a cavalry, but it's stricken right now.

From BBC

What Lincoln called “the mystic chords of memory” will help hold stricken neighborhoods and neighbors together and will, over time, help knit together connections beyond roads and pipes and power grids.

From Los Angeles Times

"Like many women, I legally had to take sick leave. But I was grief stricken, not sick, harbouring a deep sense of loss."

From BBC

Three tugboats took control of the "stricken vessel" that is "unable to manoeuvre".

From BBC