Sentence examples for afflicted on this from inspiring English sources

What I eat and how much: Ordinarily just about everything and an enormous amount, but there's a caveat — I've been afflicted on this trip by acid reflux, which for me manifests itself with throat irritation and a persistent cough.

If they don't manage to comfort the afflicted on this national holiday -- and at least unsettle the comfortable -- they're followed by a slide show with even more quotes.

Aside from contemplating the fact that Claridge maintained that he too had been abused as a child in a care home, the damage and cruelty he afflicted on the little helpless girls and countless others - he kept birds especially to attract local children - is so profound that his own sickness does not invite any attempt at a considered, intellectual response.

Have you ever been puzzled or troubled by the biblical account attributing the first six plagues afflicted on the Egyptians to Pharaoh's hardening of his heart but then the final four plagues to the fact that God hardened Pharaoh's heart?

I drove myself to the hospital, using the other eye (the afflicted one was on the "good" side of my face) and was surprised to be told that I had to stay overnight.

No one seemed to be similarly afflicted on opening night of the live show at Radio City Music Hall, although children certainly had paroxysms of joy.

But just as she stepped out the door, my friend's mother noticed that the girl's hips had broadened beyond what food could afflict on the human anatomy in such little time, and insisted that she raise her skirt.

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD likes nothing better than to blame wicked foreigners for the woes they have afflicted on South-East Asia's financial markets in recent months.

But the fly-half also missed a pair of seemingly routine kicks, with scrum-half Sébastien Bézy similarly afflicted on his France debut as he squandered three first-half shots.

And the sight of poor Amahl hopping about the stage on his one good leg is, critics would say, typical of the emotional exploitation in the operas, which do tend to read like a disabled persons' charter, with the blind, mute, lame and otherwise afflicted on perpetual parade.

A more fitting moniker: the Memphis Blues, which would describe the malady the team has afflicted on its fans.