terror-struck
- a variation of terror-stricken.
Example Sentences
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The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Moctezuma was told all this, he was terror-struck.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The girl was glued to the spot, terror-struck, pop-eyed, quivering, knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
I rose up suddenly, terror-struck at the solitude which so ruthless a judge haunted,—at the silence which so awful a voice filled.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
But before these two terror-struck individuals rose a vision of their detected boasts and overthrown pretensions, that filled them with dismay.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
