How to Use "stricken" with Example Sentences

1. Western banks had lent recklessly in foreign currency to firms and households stricken by the downturn .

2. In response to concerns about the a380 , rolls-royce made arrangements to cannibalise several half-built superjumbos on production lines to obtain more than a dozen new engines to help its stricken airline customers such as qantas .

3. Although the initiative calmed market worries about banks , it did not tackle the other major faultline in the eurozone : the widening differential in borrowing costs between stricken debtor countries ( greece , spain , italy , cyprus ) and creditor countries led by germany .