Words similar to infliction

Example sentences for: infliction

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

The more colorful cases involve the infliction of torments on helpless patients that would excite the envy of Pol Pot.
What the British do with IRA suspects, he writes, is not the infliction of extreme physical pain, but the use of a hood along with food- and sleep-deprivation.