Sentence examples for had stricken from inspiring English sources

Some of the women said that cholera had stricken their families.

They killed Miller's chances as easily as if they had stricken his name from the ballot.

Mr. Walcott abruptly changed his diet, cutting out things he thought might bring on the diabetes that had stricken many of the men in his family.

Over and over, as I looked at these photographs, I saw the same fury and misery that had stricken Aunt Shirley's sister, her feral lust to get even.

In the 1960's the writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad identified what he called a cultural "illness" that had stricken the country's cities and towns.

On Monday, Mr. Paladino said that the two speeches he had made in Brooklyn on Sunday were prepared by someone else, and that he had stricken out some ideas with which he did not agree.

The Curse had struck again.

By noon, disaster had struck.

He assumed the teachers had struck them.

Santi Cazorla had struck Dortmund's crossbar.

Lately, something else had struck him.