Example Sentences

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How it was some kind of parasite that had stricken their mother and put her in the hospital and necessitated the emergency C-section.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Oyster mortality disease had stricken France, China, the United States, New Zealand and even Sydney, but never pristine Tasmania.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2019

Mr. Walcott abruptly changed his diet, cutting out things he thought might bring on the diabetes that had stricken many of the men in his family.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2011

On Monday, Mr. Paladino said that the two speeches he had made in Brooklyn on Sunday were prepared by someone else, and that he had stricken out some ideas with which he did not agree.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2010

Mama used to tear photos from magazines, photos of the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s in America, when a long drought had stricken the Midwest.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata