How to Use afflict in a Sentence

afflict

verb

• The disease afflicts an estimated two million people every year.
• In other words, a sort of onanism of the soul afflicts him.
  — Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• This idea that this virus doesn't afflict children is not so.
  — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2022
• Doctors race to find out what is afflicting them to save their lives.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• One in four would be afflicted with the disease.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
• 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 polio she was afflicted with as a child leaving her with a limp.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• And the hosts are making money from the downtime that afflicts most cars.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Oh, do those seem like the people who are doing the afflicting?
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
• The pastor asked the group to name some of the plagues that afflicted Egypt.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
• Stanton has been afflicted with a calf muscle strain as well.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
• Motion sickness afflicts one in three adults and one in two children.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
• Mullins' concept of the job is mostly to afflict his charges with stand-up and improv.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• But all hope is not lost for the mosquito-afflicted.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
• She is not afflicted, but she was shown six faces, without hair, turned upside down.
  — Nick Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• Which pathogens afflicted Napoleon’s army?
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
• Those who aren’t afflicted by the syndrome might think dark thoughts, but they are kept buttoned up.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
• Yet it has been buffeted by the problems that afflict the rest of the kingdom.
  — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
• The seizure is not the only calamity to afflict the dos Santos clan of late.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Osula is out with a foot injury which has been afflicting him for most of the season.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• In some ways this is like moving a joint that is afflicted with osteoarthritis.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
• The crash was the second large air disaster to afflict Ukraine this year.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• Or even one in which religion is soft and yielding, called to comfort, rather than afflict.
  — Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
• 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
• But a void at the top was not the only problem afflicting the nonprofit.
  — Tyrone Lomax Jr., miamiherald, 3 Sep. 2017
• And boy, has the press ever done a good job lately of comforting the afflicted.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
• The list of Sky Islands birds afflicted by the loss of insects is long.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• Misery offers at best some comfort to the afflicted.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Next door in Syria, fuel shortages afflict most of the country.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2021
• What afflicts a program off the field will eventually seep into the product on the field.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023