afflict in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ ə'flikt ] ]
Examples
- Typically, Parkinson's disease afflicts one in 300 people.
- Chickenpox afflicts about 4 million Americans a year, mostly children.
- That always afflicts a party leader in a situation like this,
- Osteoporosis afflicts 25 million Americans, most of them postmenopausal women.
- Tuberculosis is a serious, infectious disease that afflicts human lungs.
- This is problem that doesn't only afflict this article.
- They cause Aflatoxicosis, which can afflict both animals and humans.
- All these factors guarantee that no tyranny will afflict the conquered.
- That is, the political and economic failure that afflicts their homelands.
- But what afflicts them is not remediable through traditional civil rights strategies.