Sentence examples for illness struck from inspiring English sources

Then, illness struck.

In about 90 per cent of cases, nobody knows how or why the illness struck.

The illness struck during a Venetian cruise due to end Saturday at Galveston.

His illness struck in 2003, before the current vaccines were approved.

Last summer, a mystery illness struck the remote town of El Carmen de Bolívar, northern Colombia.

Still, Ms. Brimmage made her payments until illness struck in 2005.

But if a big, expensive illness strikes, 75percentt of $3,000 doesn't go far.

If illness strikes at a different moment in the life of a production, the effects can be felt immediately.

Breast cancer can be a devastating illness, striking women with no apparent risk factors, often in the prime of life.

Usually illness strikes us unawares — but this one I could predict, like the arrival of a weather event, a mild hurricane, say.

But when illness strikes one, the other cannot "afford to know" her anymore and so joins her classmates as they toss the girl's wig around.