Sentence examples for little stricken from inspiring English sources

Bowman laughs gamely, but she looks a little stricken.

I was a student and needed babysitting work, and so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dun-gray and stricken — though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken — until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared.

There's something in their eyes that conveys furtive, panicked malice ("Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?" the writer Lorrie Moore once wondered).

"Cecil made a low disparaging murmur," another character says something "with a brave little quiver," the same character says something "with a little stricken look," someone else says something "with an air of momentary concession," and the Augustinian despond after sex is described as "the bleak little minute of irrational sadness".

I was a student and needed money, so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, past the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dun gray and stricken — though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken — until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared.

"Maybe that little strike was just a ploy, to make us think they were out there fighting for us," he said.

But if you were willing to bend the rules a little (strike that that was I thinking?) and accept Connecticut mayors who ran their cities from a jail cell, you'd have Phil Giordano of Waterbury as a colleague.

That little kid struck me so.

But should visitors come, little would strike them as out of the ordinary.

298 hurricanes, big and little have struck the Atlantic Coast in the last 46 years.

IN a room full of wonders, little epiphanies strike in strange and unexpected ways.