Sentence examples for became afflicted from inspiring English sources

But around age 14, Mr. Abas said, he became afflicted with a "neurosis" that made him acutely sensitive to the tiniest sounds, especially chewing and footsteps.

Next to nothing is known, she adds, about a host of basic questions, like whether most women with the condition have been affected from the start of their sexual lives or became afflicted during the course of adulthood.

But he sold off most of them after he became afflicted in 2001 with an undiagnosed lung condition that left him wheelchair-bound and on oxygen.

The results of such bullying can have devastating consequences in younger users, as Ask.fm found out when its largely middle-to-high school audience became afflicted by a fairly significant number of teen suicides.

While awaiting trial in the county jail, Parsons became afflicted with a severe case of crab lice.

When I was in my early twenties, I became afflicted with what I deemed "post-college marriage mania".

He has become afflicted with piles, boils, and scours.

And here Mr Sachar's volume becomes afflicted with a strange, fatal fuzziness.

He turns out to be one of the first of millions of Britons who become afflicted.

Glass-blowers get it, computer workers can become afflicted and golfers begin to miss their putts".

Another reason that doctors are uncomfortable with hypochondriacs is that physicians routinely become afflicted with the disorder themselves.