How to Use afflict in a Sentence

afflict

verb

• The disease afflicts an estimated two million people every year.
• 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 drug is the first medicine shown to slow progression of the disease, which afflicts some 6 million Americans.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Arrogance and egos afflict both, although politicians don’t tend to act like jerks.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• 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
• But the previous two months also served as a reminder as to how quickly long-term plans can go awry if injuries afflict top prospects.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• These signals can also tell us how healthy the people are, whether certain diseases afflict them, and how far the ailment has advanced.
  — Ganes Kesari, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Now, in perhaps the unkindest cut, suspicion is aimed at people with long Covid—the symptoms that may afflict as many as a third of those who survive a first hit of the virus.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
• Though these 13 viruses afflict amoebas, the researchers say that their abundance in the samples suggest that these sorts of threats are pervasive in Siberia.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• News exhaustion is a miasma that has afflicted almost all of us for some time now.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• Taboo subject The depression that afflicted Steven also held the rest of his family hostage.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• Alzheimer’s is estimated to afflict more than 6 million people in the United States.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Sign up Glossip’s case reads like a road map of the many flaws that afflict American capital punishment.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• This invasive mushroom also afflicts the hares living on the grounds.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
• More:Asthma afflicts 6 million children, many of whom grow up in poor neighborhoods.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
• Thibodeaux’s was not the only injury to afflict Oregon’s defense against Fresno State.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021
• This, the researchers claim, shows that the issues afflicting Copilot are not related to a specific vote or how far away an election date is.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• Medium-level exposure may have afflicted workers and artists who used cinnabar to adorn beads, walls, burials and more.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• Mercury enters Pisces on the 23rd and will be heavily afflicted throughout its entire time there (through March 9th).
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2024
• True, this rig is chubby for a unibody, and it's afflicted with the same traits that render all SUVs clumsy: a high ground clearance and a high center of gravity.
  — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 6 July 2023
• Talking to Hoffman was a nice reminder that others are afflicted with the hosting overachiever vice.
  — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024