How to Use inflict in a Sentence

inflict

verb

• These insects are capable of inflicting a painful sting.
• Players inflict misery on their family for negative points while playing good fortune cards on their opponents.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Interestingly, most of the novel’s white characters are goofy afterthoughts, too out of touch to inflict real injury.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Ballistic soap is used by the arms industry to test the damage projectiles will inflict on a body, how big the hole is at the entry point and what direction sundering will take.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• The vast majority of these businesses are small and family-owned, and simply can’t afford to have the damage inflicted on them by our government.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Intestinal parasites, transmitted through water and food, can inflict damage ranging from stunted growth to starvation and death.
  — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
• To inflict more damage, economists say, the European Union must cut Russia’s main lifeline: oil and gas export revenue.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
• Neighbors told the couple the hurricane destroyed their carport and inflicted other damage but Neuman shrugged, saying their insurance should cover it.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2024
• The group used extreme violence and inflicted terror against Black Americans to uphold their racist white supremacist agenda.
  — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
• Over the course of 30 years the United States has inflicted grave damage on Iraq.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• Michael Myers is about to inflict on not just Laurie Strode, but the world.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• Not when the Bucs defense was there to inflict the finishing blows.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
• It’s built around guns, knives, fists and pure will: anything that can inflict instant death.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• And so, to shut down the government would inflict pain on the American people.
  — Megan Barnes, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Georgia inflicted the first loss, with Texas A&M dealing out the next four.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2023
• For Israel, the onslaught is all downstream of the horror inflicted by Hamas on Oct. 7.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• But the rebound remains small compared to the scale of the losses inflicted in recent days.
  — Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Tonight, Davis was only the enemy of the state, on a mission to inflict memorable harm.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Frigid air that could inflict frostbite in ten minutes.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022
• No one is planning to inflict massive biocide like Thanos in the Marvel Avengers films.
  — Matthew Cobb, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Kevin Durant, who averages 29 points per game, will look to inflict more damage on the Celtics.
  — Matt Boecker | Catena Media, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2023
• The suspect did manage to inflict a severe bite on one of the officers, police said.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
• But this is a grimmer kind of boy’s book, less fit for a classroom but more candid about the damage adults inflict on children.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• On May 2, the rider died of the injuries inflicted in the accident and was pronounced deceased.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• Garby said the injuries inflicted on Brosso and Bernas were reflected in some of the images Miller viewed.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• Her mother mixed the dye in spray bottles once filled with cleaning supplies, which the girl, now the woman, used to inflict garish patterns on the yard.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Shortly after Wednesday’s barrage, Yevhen pulled out his iPhone to play a video from the day before of the damage the howitzers can inflict.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• The key for union leaders would be to find the strategy that will inflict the most pain on the company while doing the least damage to the union's $825 million strike fund.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
• But if a special counsel must be inflicted, David Weiss is uniquely unfit for the job.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2023
• Efforts to inflict such a cut have repeatedly failed on the House and Senate floors in recent years, Lord said.
  — Svetlana Shkolnikova Stars and Stripes (tns), al, 13 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024