horror-struck
adjective
hor·ror-struck
ˈhȯr-ər-ˌstrək 
ˈhär-
: struck with horror
stood horror-struck as they watched … their own city destroyed—
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Examples of horror-struck in a Sentence
horror-struck, the villagers watched helplessly as the tsunami hit the shore
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Other people were horror-struck by the verdicts in each of these cases, seeing them as a catastrophic failure of the American system of justice.
—Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
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Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
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“Horror-struck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horror-struck. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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