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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stricken look" is correct to use in written English.
It is typically used to describe a look of shock, surprise, fear, or sorrow on someone's face. Example: When I told him I would not be able to make it to the party, he gave me a stricken look.
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I gave him a stricken look.
The waitress gave me a stricken look.
He cleared his throat, and she turned around with a stricken look on her face.
"This is a fantasy city," she admitted of the Vegas version, studying it with a stricken look of great reverence.
Mrs. Nelson thought her husband had died when she saw the stricken look on the face of the surgeon after the operation.
At about ten, Chubais got a call on his mobile phone, and as he listened he paced around a long table, with a stricken look on his face.
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The actors respond with appropriately stricken looks.
A stricken looking Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his former wife, sat nearby.
But then one evening Aitch and Jackie arrive at Gal's favorite restaurant with stricken looks on their faces.
Striking looks, futuristic cabin, quiet and comfortable.
She was striking looking, with kittenish features, and her Web site gave her age as 22.
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