How to Use afflict in a Sentence

afflict

verb

• The disease afflicts an estimated two million people every year.
• 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 list of Sky Islands birds afflicted by the loss of insects is long.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• 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 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
• The virus has afflicted tens of thousands of people worldwide and killed more than 1,300.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• The number of folks afflicted in the U.S. is staggering and growing year by year.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Officials called it one of the most powerful hurricanes to afflict the U.S. Gulf Coast in decades.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• Near or above record highs in the mid-90s are projected to afflict the Houston area until Monday.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 13 May 2022
• One of the nice things about these new Plus models is that the groan-inducing slowness that once afflicted cheap Chromebooks is nowhere to be found.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
• The relief of minor pain for many cannot offset the agony of one, because the pains afflict distinct and separate people.
  — Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Arrogance and egos afflict both, although politicians don’t tend to act like jerks.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• The market ignores hardships that afflict normal people through no fault of their own.
  — Edward P. Lazear, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
• This was in response to a question about why Perkins went undrafted — the next malady to afflict his career.
  — Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024