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struck down

vb. (en-paststrike down)

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Struck Down

Struck Down is the second studio album by American hard rock/ heavy metal band Yesterday and Today, released in 1978. It was one of the last rock albums to be released by London Records. The album was brought back into print in 2009 when it was made available on the band's official website together with the self-titled debut on a single CD.

The band would change their name to Y&T for their next studio album, Earthshaker.

Usage examples of "struck down".

All the hideous fantastic tales of murder which he had read or heard seemed to take visible shape in the person of the loathly carcase before him, clad in the yellow dress of a convict, and lying flung together on the ground as though struck down.

Not thinking about me in the ground, I hoped, or of her young man struck down in battle in one of our rebel village skirmishes.

She'd felt relief mingled with horror when he'd been struck down in front of her, his bones snapping like dry twigs, a low animal moaning coming from his crumpled body.

In an instant the air was filled with arrows like rain, and you might see many a man and many a horse struck down dead, and the shouting and the noise of the battle was so great, that one could hardly have heard God's thunder.

The death of kings, some struck down by jealous rivals upon their own seats-of-honor, the killing of men with only short seasons of uneasy peace in which they can prepare once more for the flood of blood across their countries.

CYRANO: 'To be struck down, Pierced by sword i' the heart, from a hero's hand!

And men proclaimed themselves for the Dragon, and other men struck them down and were struck down in turn.

It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good.

He wrenched a quarter-staff from one of the fellows, struck down the Captain, who was altogether unaware of his purpose, and had well-nigh repossessed himself of the pouch and treasure.

And all her being had risen in revolt at this most monstrous woe of chance, and in her torture she had cried out that in that hour she would not be struck down.

Cuitlahua, the emperor, was struck down by the illness, and when we reached the city he lay dying.

Yelling like a maniac, he struck down a couple from behind, plunging into the free-for-all, clawing his way toward the impish standard.

Others lay in line as if they had been marching in ranks when struck down.