How to use "stricken" in a sentence

We are stricken by no plague of locusts.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require

Sickened, grief-stricken, she had taken their advice, and Danny's funeral had been a closed-coffin service

Then the guilt-stricken mother could have been permitted one last, late, ghastly look at the remains of her son.