Example sentences for: afflicted

How can you use “afflicted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A story bemoans the success of the Gap and Pottery Barn, saying they have afflicted the United States with an excess of bland good taste.

  • People afflicted with illnesses that have not made the funding cut (particularly a group with the Monty Pythonesque name of Not Dead Yet) are irate that a lifesaving operation in the territory around No.

  • But perhaps such comments are intended less for those who feel afflicted by this particular form of ennui than for the larger group capable of resenting the rich.

  • In the following quotation, the reader may have difficulty in determining how far from his wife this ideal husband lives, why he isn't bankrupt from feeding parking meters, and what circumstance might have afflicted him with muteness:

  • and filled with "self-pity" and afflicted with a "thin skin" (Kate O'Beirne).


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