Sentence examples for had been stricken from inspiring English sources

She had been stricken by a massive stroke.

So many people, Horeb said, had been stricken by spirits and made to appear dead.

I had got the impression that most of the school had been stricken by whatever the trouble was.

Lofthouse's personal life had been stricken at the end of the miners' strike by the death of his wife, Sarah.

Sadly, Thomas Cahill in New York had been stricken with a sudden illness, and could not sign.

Gehrig, revered as the "Iron Horse" for his durability, had been stricken by a muscle-wasting disease that would later bear his name.

Her van had been struck by 30 bullets.

But a nerve had been struck.

I had been struck by his remarks.

Onstage, the set had been struck.

Simpson, 28, had been struck several times.