horror-struck
adjective
stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
horror-stricken
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a variation of
horror-struck.
Example Sentences
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“He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
“I was just horror-stricken that this could happen in our state,” Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, told Denver’s Fox 31 TV station after a Wednesday visit to the Animas, near Durango.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015
The woman beside me looks so horror-stricken, I try to sound especially calm when talking to 911.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2012
The devastating effect of the tabloids on public morals is shown by Beulah Stevenson in her "Purity," wherein are seen two horror-stricken women, drunk with the joy of morbidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frodo and Sam, horror-stricken, began slowly to back away, their own gaze held by the dreadful stare of those baleful eyes; but as they backed so the eyes advanced.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
