stricken
verb
a past participle of strike.
strickenly
-
a word derived from
stricken.
Example Sentences
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There was, in fact, something almost dignifying in that strickenly defiant face of hers.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
He stopped dead with hanging arms and looked strickenly in the direction whence it came.
From The Huntress by Hulbert Footner
So did the thrush, but never before had he kept so utterly, stonily, frozenly, strickenly motionless.
From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree
Hardman staggered to his feet, brushing the dirt from his person while he gazed strickenly at Pan.
From Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey
“That was only because I was naughty,” she pleaded, strickenly, but she knew in her soul it wasn’t “only because.”
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
