How to Use stricken in a Sentence

stricken

adjective

• I saw her stricken face looking up at us.
• Blood was flowing through the stricken part of the patient’s brain once again.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The stricken sub was drifting last night about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, near the Cortes Bank.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• His teammates formed a stricken circle around him on the field.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
• Mercedes’s George Russell got out of his stricken car and ran across to check on Zhou.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 July 2022
• There’s death in his skin tone, but his face is alive with a kind of stricken fixity.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• What also struck him were the expressions on the queen’s faces — both looked stricken, with a hand held up as if in shock.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• The lender had to sell off $2.3 billion worth of soured Archegos trades as the fallout of its ties to the stricken hedge fund continue to emerge.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Images published in the afternoon by the coast guard showed gray smoke pouring out of the stricken ship.
  — Mike Corder, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
• The driver stopped, Bailey said, and was more distraught than the stricken runner.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2022
• The stricken ship is docked in Tromso, in northern Norway.
  — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• So what if Diane sometimes likes to go down in the basement with a glass of wine and watch old home movies with a stricken, inscrutable smile on her face?
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Qatar and other wealthy Gulf countries have joined the global effort to send rescuers and aid to the stricken region.
  — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Nobody, at this juncture, seems more stricken than Firth.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
• Walking back toward the stricken Isabella, Brooks and the marines were cheered by the sight of passengers making it ashore.
  — Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• Hours after the attack, plumes of smoke were still rising from the stricken facility on the western edges of Lviv.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• The group of stricken cruisers is now attempting to be reunited with the ship in a trans-African adventure.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
• But the stricken parents could not quite grasp that their other two children might be gone forever.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• The rules vary depending on a stricken team’s home conference.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• But the brother’s sweetheart, Abra, succeeds in building a bridge between the stricken father and the repentant son.
  — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• The stricken species was named Eriogonum tiehmii, or Tiehm’s wild buckwheat.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
• Similarly, life’s odds squeezed tight for the stricken Hamlin, whose heart stopped beating last Monday night on the field in Cincinnati.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• Few news outlets published the 9/11 image by AP photographer Richard Drew of one person who jumped to his death from the a stricken skyscraper.
  — Stuart Palley, National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2020
• Aerial images showed the separated stern of the Crimson Polaris tipped upwards and the other part of the stricken boat listing into the sea.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2021
• But with a month to go until the opening ceremony, some in the heart of Japan’s stricken region feel that Olympic promise has been all but forgotten.
  — Hanako Lowry, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Dramatic photographs of the aftermath showed the bridge split in two with the large stricken ship stationary under the structure.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• The stricken officers manage to stagger out of the vehicle and call for assistance.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• Officials were absent until the king appeared in the stricken villages a few days after the disaster.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• At a wind farm outside of Crowell, a town just southeast of the Panhandle, the stricken turbine continued to spin, sending smoky rings into the air as the fire spread throughout the machine.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 24 July 2022
• Crudup underplays well in what’s mostly a thankless role, while Quinn — who also sings the song heard over the end credits — shines in conveying Grace’s own stricken journey.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024