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How to use terror-stricken in a sentence

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

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A Tadcaster shop worker was left terror-stricken today after a youth threatened to stab her with a knife unless she gave him money from the till.
Scores of terror-stricken farmers had abandoned their properties following attacks on several of their colleagues and the death of two.
Rodney was fighting futilely against them as his red hair fell messily into his terror-stricken green eyes.
Actually, he could not think of a higher sacrifice of a loving mother than sitting up at night at the bed of a terror-stricken infant.
Put an end to it at the negotiation table and not in the battlefields and in terror-stricken streets.
Rising to follow him through the doors of the ship and onto the soft, hot sands, she watched, terror-stricken, as Ryell drew his blade and approached his adversary.
I smiled menacingly and she quickly averted her terror-stricken gaze.
Sierra knew that tears were flowing down her cheeks as she looked at the picture of her terror-stricken sister with acceptance of death in her eyes.
Her pale blue eyes were wide and terror-stricken and darted from the barred door to the tiny circular window, but there was no way she could escape her confines.
The angels sound terror-stricken as they raise their voices in inaudible song.
A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants.
We have read many accounts of Shostakovich's life under Stalin, his terror-stricken accommodations with the Soviet state.
Towns and villages were deliberately bombed to create a fleeing mass of terror-stricken civilians to block the roads and hamper the flow of reinforcements to the front.
Indeed, the climatic records show that the swirling orange skies behind the terror-stricken face match perfectly those recorded that winter in southern Norway.
And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing.
Jerry gave one terror-stricken look, wound his reins round the whipstock, and, leaping from his seat, disappeared behind a convenient tree.
Examples from Classical Literature
Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of the whale.
There was a quick leap, and the Belgian felt a heavy body hurtle onto the rump of his terror-stricken mount.
Bacchus himself plunged terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the fury with which the man reviled him.
Juag had been terror-stricken when he had learned that I intended crossing the ocean, and when we passed out of sight of land be was in a blue funk.
Attracted by the horses, lions roared about the boma, and to their hideous din was added the shrill neighs of the terror-stricken beasts they hunted.
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