The phrase "struck badly" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something was damaged or affected badly due to an external force or event. For example, "The storm struck the town badly and caused widespread destruction."
Quintin Berry, who hit into a double play and struck out badly to strand five runners in Game 3, hooks a ball deep down the right field line that lands foul by about three inches – a good call by umpire Fieldin Culbreth, but close enough that right fielder Hunter Pence chases it down and plays it like a fair ball.
Von Doom is later struck and badly burned by Thor's lightning, although he survives.
On some streets, every building had been hit by an air strike, badly damaged if not completely destroyed.
It is this transparently obstructionist tactic to which President Obama said "enough," striking a badly needed blow for checks and balances with strong support both from the text and the original purpose of the recess appointment clause.
Certain works struck me as badly in need of wise theatricality.
"As a former soldier, I was struck by how badly the house was defended," Mr. Qadir said in an interview.
Tensions between Tehran and Riyadh have been rising after the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia cleric on New Year's Day, which has exacerbated the fragile status of a region already badly struck by sectarianism.
When the global financial crisis struck Greece was badly prepared after years of profligacy, hosting an expensive Olympic games in 2004, and failing to rein in its spiralling public debt.
In 1998, when the filmmaker Paul Schrader agreed to make a video for Lucinda's last album and flew down to Nashville to discuss possible ideas, he was struck by how badly this woman needed a break: here was someone in her mid-forties who was having trouble meeting the essential needs of food and shelter.
"They are keenly interested in the management of nonprofits, and they are struck by how badly managed most of them are," says Chuck Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigation-oriented nonprofit that got a few small grants from the Sandlers a few years ago.
