afflict in a sentence

Examples

1. It afflicts about 4 million people in the United States.
2. It afflicts even the physician consulted by Pauline's concerned Mum.
3. Hypertension afflicts more than half of all Americans over 65.
4. Still, the nostalgia epidemic among Russian emigres afflicts him as well.
5. Hereafter, a certain listlessness afflicts Oldenburg's work.
6. The same budget problems afflict CUNY and its 21 campuses.
7. Wage stagnation and other economic problems continue to afflict workers.
8. Let's comfort the already comfortable and afflict the already afflicted.
9. Countless " genes-jeans " puns afflict apparel advertising.
10. You know those General Protection Fault crashes that often afflict Windows programs?