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Example sentences for: afflicted

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Reporters always like to take popular people down, and they're trained to sympathize with underdogs ("afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted").
With one afflicted parent, there is a 50 percent chance of inheritance; and when neither parent is an allergy sufferer, there's still a 20 percent chance.
He intimated that, in his humble opinion, his overseer is a loquacious and diminutive fellow of a somewhat devious and unpleasant bent, that he is afflicted with a strabismus of the sinistral optical member, and that he is currently attired in a rather noisome woolen torsal garment of an indeterminate off-chocolate hue.
And as one not afflicted with false modesty--or any other kind--he clearly enjoys his plaudits immensely.
The small chapel at the rear, Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos (Our Lady of the Afflicted), is where women often pray when their fishermen husbands are away at sea.