Example Sentences

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Combining personal history with investigative reporting, Arsenault pays loving homage to her family’s tight-knit Maine town even as she examines the cancers that have stricken so many residents.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020

Justice Sotomayor responded that, with one exception, the defense lawyer could not have stricken any potential black jurors because Mr. Evans had already excluded them all.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2019

Hunger and starvation have stricken every part of the earth at one time or another.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would have stricken out the "assemble" and left the "meet together."

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

No mere intellect, no mere worldly success could, in this age of bold inquiry, have sustained that tremendous claim; long ago we should have stricken Cæsar and dethroned Napoleon.

From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)