Sentence examples for they were stricken from inspiring English sources

Seal numbers dropped further in the 1970's when many died from influenza and in the 1980's, when they were stricken with distemper infection.

Compared with Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey, who was critically injured in a traffic accident on Thursday, 15 months after taking office, many of the other governors were far along in their tenures when they were stricken.

When the hail stopped, it started to snow, and the two friends, shivering, in shorts, made their way down the mountain, then walked along the road in the hope that someone would pick them up before they were stricken with exposure.

They were stricken with paralysis and respiratory distress, and most of the deaths were a result of suffocation.

The ships remained in service until 1944, when they were stricken from the naval register and laid up at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard before being scrapped after 1953.

Together, they were striking.

They were struck by the Stansted train.

They were struck by his optimism.

That was the place where they were struck by bombs.

Many people told me they were struck by that".

They were struck sparingly, and no Carolingian gold thereafter appeared.