Sentence examples for afflicting them from inspiring English sources
Through his subordinate demons Satan can take possession of men's bodies, afflicting them or making them diseased.
They all impose "austerity" programs on their economies as necessary to exit the crisis afflicting them all since 2007.
Before the crisis ended, 19 people formally accused others of afflicting them, 54 residents of Essex County confessed to being witches and nearly 150 people were charged with consorting with the Devil.
Yes, the supernatural bad guys in his sprawling, 766-page novel, "The Passage" — about death-row inmates infected by the United States military with a rare Bolivian jungle virus, afflicting them with superhuman strength and a lust for human blood — are recognizable as very close cousins of the fanged creatures who've torn a bloody swath through American pop culture.
It is the fungus afflicting them.
There were these young girls, who started the whole thing, they started acting out and having fits, which could look like possession, and they were accusing people in the town of afflicting them with their witchcraft and that's how the whole thing started.
It afflicts them because they are visitors.
Twice Kunzru afflicts them with digestive troubles.
Post-traumatic stress syndrome can afflict them, too.
The pleasure of retirees singing kitschy Communist songs contrasts painfully with the benumbed uniformity that afflicts them still.
ROME — Italians often minimize what afflicts them with this philosophy: Without the bad, no one would appreciate the good.
