Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use stricken in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word stricken? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
When he returned from his act of bovicide and saw that the butter was indeed in the bowl, he was stricken with regret.
Three people were rescued from the stricken yacht's life raft by sailors from HMAS Newcastle.
The lifeboat launched in storm force 10-12 winds to help a stricken yacht, the Dasher, which was adrift with three people on board.
What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was?
The lifeboat towed the stricken vessel into Stromness, arriving just before midnight.
The stricken animal tangled with another horse, Don Argento, felling his fellow apprentice jockey.
So here's what's going to happen, either you explain your actions today, or you'll both be stricken off of the active duty roster.
Helicopters in India were rushing medicine to stricken areas, while warships in Thailand steamed to island resorts to rescue survivors.
So there we are, the entire human part of the establishment stricken with the deadly lurgy, leaving Harry and Dolly to entertain themselves.
She looked so stricken at the thought of her cousin having a tendre for her.
He was flying Spitfire R6614 and was able to bail out of his stricken aeroplane but was later found dead.
Two of the Navy's trio of offshore patrol ships were on hand to rescue stricken mariners in two incidents on the same day.
Thousands of people have spent idyllic holidays in the areas stricken by the tidal wave following the earthquake.
Abandoned by the stricken father, Paolo had been brought up in his mother's home.
Losing no time, Simon tied their two 300 foot ropes together and started belaying the pain stricken Joe down the mountain.
McGoldrick guided the stricken Warhawk into a successful belly landing but the fighter hit a land mine and the commander was killed.
The new Queen spent much of February touring the stricken areas to try to boost morale.
He was then stricken with shin splints that required a series of operations and left him crawling around his house for months.
Like a lot of other bedridden misanthropes, I got into the lifestyle after being stricken by illness and liked it so much I decided not to leave.
Then I was stricken by one of those pre-emptive wake-ups that are usually so bothersome.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
The undesirable provisions were also stricken by amendment from the direct primary law.
Bohun was speechless for a moment, stricken dumb by a second seizure of fury.
It promptly spread its wings and flew away, apparently as vibrantly alive as before the mysterious paralysis had stricken it.
It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. drupe was stricken with apoplexy.
It might be stricken with dry-rot, elephantiasis and plica polonica for ought I care.
Besides suffering from a dust storm, Kansas was stricken by floods due to heavy rain in some parts of the state.
Nevertheless this reconciliation, though seemingly perfect, is stricken with the character of subjectiveness.
A distant clang, as of a stricken anvil, iterated from the barren mountain beyond the forest.
I want to know if the two team scientists who were stricken first had EEG's made after the attack.
A great fear seized her that it would be impossible to keep Hamlyn's purlieu, and she was stricken with panic.
But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
Scott and the gasman are stricken with dumb concern, not having received one single letter from home since they left.
His name was Sabathier, and for fifteen years he had been stricken with ataxia.
How the maggid would have been stricken to the heart to know that Isaac now heard these legends with inverted sympathies!
Just after her death he was as a man stricken by some dazing mental affection.
One morning, as he was going downstairs, Orlando was stricken with paralysis.
I remembered that Mrs. Todd had once said that this old fisherman had been sore stricken and unconsoled at the death of his wife.
It argues that if France was stricken with defeat, it was because she deserved punishment.
His moon face stricken and appealing, Monsieur Pettipon addressed the chief steward.
When he dared to open his eyes he was blinded and dazed like the stricken Saul.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
8-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024