Sentence examples for become struck from inspiring English sources

It was as if the artistic look were surplus to requirements; or, rather, as if to don the outer crust of an insurance agent or an advertising man — to conduct oneself like the steady Nebraskan citizen that Kees might have stayed to become — struck him as the slyest of disguises, enabling him to slip his poems under the door, without being noticed or making a scene.

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.

Goya painted them during a time when he was free of the strictures of commissioned work but had become stricken with a disease whose side effect was deafness.

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.

I didn't become a fan, I just became struck by how seemingly easily a sound I generally like could be totally hijacked, defanged and made tween-friendly.

But as he began to study the religion's teachings, he became struck by how different they were from what was being claimed by men like Osama Bin Laden.

The girl died two days later, and soon the nurse who had attended her became stricken as well.

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.