Sentence examples for all stricken from inspiring English sources

"We are all stricken with sadness for both parties," said Prof. H. Stephen Straight.

"We were all stricken watching this heartbreaking event unfold," said Judy McGrath, the chairwoman and chief executive of MTV Networks.

"Once, when the prisoners were standing in formation, one of them imagined that the earth yawned, and they were all stricken by fear and ran in all directions," the priest said.

"We're all stricken," she said of the eerie scene beyond her house, part pastoral with cows watering picturesquely, part desperate with rescue pumps and drills hammering away at the earth.

Use of that word as a general catch-all strikes me as reductive and unfair.

The randomness of it all struck her.

They all struck bathing-beauty poses.

These deals were all struck under different management teams.

Two things, above all, struck me during our lunch.

It all struck me as a gleeful, naughty fantasy.

The comparisons between the two Illinois politicians are, after all, striking.