Sentence examples for I inflicted on from inspiring English sources

"When I saw the damage I inflicted on her...

"I know that I can never fully assuage the pain that I inflicted on those closest to me and on a number of others," he will say.

"I sometimes wince at the nasty incisions I inflicted on writers when I crossed the line between cutup and cutthroat," he says.

I assume you have spent the past two years alternately licking the wounds I inflicted on your person and burning your collection of utterly unacceptable three-quarter-length trousers and you realise now you've developed a taste for the pain.

Very clearly I should not have swapped points with my ex-wife … But there is also a lot of hurt that I inflicted on my family and my ex-wife, which explains some of the behaviour that has gone on since, and I'm very sorry for that as well.

"Trust me, all of that pain and destruction I inflicted on myself wasn't worth it.

No – it was an accident, one of the many I inflict on myself and other people each year.

As a result of this I've retained a passion for going for walks, which I inflict on my own children whenever we're on holiday.

It may be that in Reality the pains I inflict on you affect me or at least a larger mind-like thing in which we both participate but if I never experience those effects, how can this give me a motive to do or forbear if my interests conflict with yours?

Year after year of paying the bills with money earned off the pain I inflict on myself.

Overwhelmed by guilt and responsibility for the damage I'd inflicted on those I love, I started to believe everything I'd been told: I was a Bad Mother, a Bad Person, a Bad Writer – my every reason for existence undermined.