How to Use affliction in a Sentence

affliction

noun

• She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
• He died from a mysterious affliction.
• Many of his films deal with outsiders, often with some sort of affliction.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
• Matzo may be known as the bread of affliction, but the Passover meal is a feast.
  — Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2021
• The injury was the start of a lifelong affliction with headaches.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• But if the play’s afflictions are ours, so must be its hope.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• As is the case for most modern afflictions, there’s an app for that.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Sep. 2023
• As the affliction spread, Italians called it the French Disease.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• Her dream was to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease, the affliction that killed their great aunt.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• This is a common affliction for those of us who love games.
  — Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• And there is also just the heartache of why — the affliction, the crushing emotional weight.
  — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
• His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 3 July 2017
• Neil Young is trapped in a cycle of second- and third- and fourth-guessing, which is an affliction that is not unique to his brain . .
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
• Strangers always fail to grasp the importance of the town’s affliction.
  — Suzanne Berne, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• Barton and whoever is the point guard at the time all seem to suffer from the same affliction.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• This was a common local affliction in those days, traced to a bad run of Swiss cheese.
  — Hart Pomerantz, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• The French philosopher Simone Weil was a soul at odds with herself and with a world of affliction.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Then comes the loss of Marian Hossa to a skin affliction.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Sores covered my body like Job in his great affliction.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
• Then the affliction spreads, with shocking speed, to humans.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 31 July 2024
• In fact, Jefferson foresaw an end to a disease that was then the most deadly and most feared affliction in much of the world.
  — Kyle Harper, Time, 5 Oct. 2021
• And so the fear is that folks could take that to an extreme if someone has an affliction, that isn't life threatening.
  — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Entire sections of the wall have been swallowed by weather and time — and that’s to say nothing of the many wars and manmade afflictions.
  — Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• There the poem ends, after a mere six stanzas of affliction.
  — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Or under-eat, although that doesn’t seem to be your … affliction.
  — Casey Wilson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2021
• But the abiding assumption is that grief is a private affliction, and the cure will be private too.
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Florida can still be saved, but for this to happen, the state must save itself, or be saved, from this affliction.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Just one cure for my affliction exists: my cat Calvin, lying atop my shoulder, lulling me to sleep with his purrs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Three out of four members of Modern Moxie have been overtaken by this affliction.
  — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024