How to Use affliction in a Sentence

affliction

noun

• She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
• He died from a mysterious affliction.
• As is the case for most modern afflictions, there’s an app for that.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Sep. 2023
• And then, these afflictions can lead to a life-or-death struggle.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside, 5 Mar. 2026
• This time this affliction had invaded my home and had picked on my kid.
  — John Sergio, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
• Many of his films deal with outsiders, often with some sort of affliction.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
• The injury was the start of a lifelong affliction with headaches.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• Matzo may be known as the bread of affliction, but the Passover meal is a feast.
  — Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2021
• His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 3 July 2017
• Or under-eat, although that doesn’t seem to be your … affliction.
  — Casey Wilson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2021
• Every parent who has lost a child will one day die of that chronic affliction.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Fixed an issue where bare fists and kicks contributed to affliction build up.
  — Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
• This was a common local affliction in those days, traced to a bad run of Swiss cheese.
  — Hart Pomerantz, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Everyone said their name along with their affliction.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
• Her dream was to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease, the affliction that killed their great aunt.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• Strangers always fail to grasp the importance of the town’s affliction.
  — Suzanne Berne, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• Barton and whoever is the point guard at the time all seem to suffer from the same affliction.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• What is clear is that the town’s affliction is not only accepted but cherished.
  — Suzanne Berne, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• And there is also just the heartache of why — the affliction, the crushing emotional weight.
  — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
• His affliction for the blues has expanded from jazz to murder ballads.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• And so the fear is that folks could take that to an extreme if someone has an affliction, that isn't life threatening.
  — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Florida can still be saved, but for this to happen, the state must save itself, or be saved, from this affliction.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• There was no dramatic incident, no hard foul that caused those afflictions.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
• The penalty shootout is a cursed affliction when the roulette wheel fails you, and that was Arsenal’s fate here.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
• But the abiding assumption is that grief is a private affliction, and the cure will be private too.
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• What can explain the astonishing rise and spread of this affliction?
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• But those maladies have nothing against the ones presented in this list—six afflictions that many of us have come to know all too well.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• The larger tech industry suffers some of the same affliction.
  — Jason Tanz, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• None of these afflictions are exclusive to older moms, but age is a big factor in how serious both are.
  — Heather Grossmann, Parents, 11 Mar. 2026