The phrase "become stricken" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe when someone is suddenly overcome with an emotion or feeling, often one of grief, sorrow, or distress. For example, "When he found out that he had lost his job, he became stricken with sadness."
The disparity between exports and domestic demand has become striking here.
In photographs, as a younger woman, she is attractive but plain; in middle age, with her dark features and short, gray hair, she had become striking.
We need to also remind ourselves that the mission of journalism has always been truth-seeking not, as it has often become, striking some fictitious balance between two sides.
Therefore, phytolith morphological difference between East Asian and Western European foxtail millet could become striking.
At the time, she felt so humiliated that she became stricken with stage fright.
When one of the girls becomes stricken — with fatigue, a swollen stomach and discomfort so severe that she cannot move — she will not be the only one suffering.
As Mr. Diallo walked past, his face became stricken, and he said to a reporter beside him: "You see that woman?
Maxwell Bodenheim's 1926 Profile does not mention the failed suicide attempt that is the source material for "Exorcism," but instead discusses a watershed period between O'Neill's peripatetic youth and his rise to theatrical fame: [When] he was twenty-five … he became stricken with tuberculosis — a mingled boon and curse in his case — and was confined in a sanitarium near New London, Connecticut.
The video, created by a 10-nation alliance, features a young African boy explaining how he became stricken with the virus and warning his family about the dangers.
Two ships, the Leicester and Gaspar, encountered the hurricane and became stricken in open waters.
