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
• What afflicts the great star of the court can equally afflict the great star of the quad.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• The pastor asked the group to name some of the plagues that afflicted Egypt.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Though Buck was still afflicted at the end of the hour, Minear confirms that Buck did break the curse.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
• Yet it has been buffeted by the problems that afflict the rest of the kingdom.
  — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
• The crash was the second large air disaster to afflict Ukraine this year.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• Now the biggest threat to the country’s wildlife is poaching, the scourge that afflicts parks and reserves across Africa.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2019
• Doctors race to find out what is afflicting them to save their lives.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Oh, do those seem like the people who are doing the afflicting?
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
• 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
• As the number of those afflicted has grown, so has the number of tools to help them navigate.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2019
• The virus has afflicted tens of thousands of people worldwide and killed more than 1,300.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• And boy, has the press ever done a good job lately of comforting the afflicted.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Hot enough that the World Cup is Brazil’s fever, and the political future of the country is afflicted.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• 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
• One area of the team has been severely afflicted with injuries.
  — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
• In France, one child is afflicted [by violence] every three minutes.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025