Sentence examples for stricken from inspiring English sources
The word "stricken" is a valid and commonly used word in written English
You can use it when you want to describe something as having been severely affected or hard hit, as in, "The town was stricken by a terrible famine."
adjective
Struck by something.
Some believe the weather is already being shaped by "chemtrails" – aeroplane contrails deliberately laced with toxic chemicals – and mysterious weather warmongers are, for reasons unknown, making the eastern US unbearably chilly and California stricken by drought.
When his stricken striker limped off United had already used their three substitutes and Van Persie did leave the ground on crutches, but United's third substitution was not made until the 80th minute so they did not play with a "passenger" for long.
No one had very much then and we weren't poverty stricken.
By the time the camera cuts back, she looks stricken.
That's why Alistair Darling, then chancellor, put him in to sort out stricken Northern Rock in early 2008 before he moved across to RBS in November, about the time Cameron and Osborne spotted there might not be "proceeds of growth" to share between tax cuts and extra spending for a while.
Similarly, when the stricken community bonds together to pay for Billy's travel expenses to the climatic audition despite their own obvious hardship, the scene smacks of cliché.
After six stark years of recession, debt-stricken Greece is back, doing what it has done since the 50s, drawing in holidaymakers from far and wide, only this time at record-breaking rates.
As prime minister Alexis Tsipras scrambles to secure a financial lifeline to keep the debt-stricken country afloat, hardliners in his radical left Syriza party have also ratcheted up the pressure.
There's really only one rule of present-giving, which is that the gift is the product not of a panic-stricken rush to Amazon but of thoughtfulness.
Capriles tweeted the claim as Vice President Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans on national television that their cancer-stricken president continues a difficult and slow recovery from 11 December surgery.
What the so-called optimism is about is stopping panic-stricken Greeks withdrawing deposits from banks," said one well-placed source with access to high-level policymakers.
