How to Use afflict in a Sentence

afflict

verb

• The disease afflicts an estimated two million people every year.
• Those afflicted will endure fever, headache, and fatigue.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• The list of Sky Islands birds afflicted by the loss of insects is long.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• Whatever's afflicting you out there, in here the coffee is always hot, the fries are always crispy and the ranch dip is always free.
  — Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
• Pet birds afflicted with nutritional disease should be placed on a healthy diet as soon as possible.
  — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2019
• And this appears to disproportionately afflict young male adults.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• Anderson said one sign a city is doing poorly is having an empty downtown — an issue that afflicted Phoenix years ago.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 29 Oct. 2019
• The three-game losing streak – their first under McVay – indicates the Rams might be afflicted.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
• Hagibis is the fourth major rainfall disaster to afflict Japan in the past 14 months; Tokyo was hit twice in less than 2 months.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 22 Oct. 2019
• Once afflicted, a person typically experienced fever and aches as an early symptom.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• The disease afflicts about 5,000 patients in the United States and causes rapid nerve cell loss in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• And Sony didn’t plunge into streaming, which not only saved it from a lot of the money-hemorrhaging that has afflicted other studios, but benefited from it as an arms dealer.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
• That last one seems to afflict the Twins more than most.
  — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• The seizure is not the only calamity to afflict the dos Santos clan of late.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• And the hosts are making money from the downtime that afflicts most cars.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• This idea that this virus doesn't afflict children is not so.
  — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2022
• The same issue afflicted a medium-rare porterhouse I was served one night: The fillet was ideal but the other side of the T-bone, the strip, ranged from medium-rare to medium-well.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• The crash was the second large air disaster to afflict Ukraine this year.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• Doctors race to find out what is afflicting them to save their lives.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• But this is not the sort of series that will leave evil unpunished or afflict the good with senseless tragedy.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• The virus has afflicted tens of thousands of people worldwide and killed more than 1,300.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• The drug is the first medicine shown to slow progression of the disease, which afflicts some 6 million Americans.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 July 2023
• Guinea-Bissau is not the only place in west Africa to be afflicted by cocaine.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Next door in Syria, fuel shortages afflict most of the country.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2021
• Everyone is afflicted, and all are welcome in the church.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
• The discovery could lead the way to new treatments for a disease that afflicts millions of people.
  — Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• Or even one in which religion is soft and yielding, called to comfort, rather than afflict.
  — Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
• The last pandemic to strike the world with such force was the Spanish flu, which started in 1918, primarily afflicting not the old but the young.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• What afflicts a program off the field will eventually seep into the product on the field.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• It was believed that this ritual expulsion of the pharmakos served to cleanse the city from the famines or plagues that afflicted it.
  — Candida Moss, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024