Sentence examples for but afflicted from inspiring English sources

The junior McHenry assured the government that his father was alive but afflicted by Alzheimer's disease.

Funny, beautiful and fragile, she was fiery but afflicted, at times laid up by illness and often exhausted by housekeeping.

He received a jail sentence of one to three years but, afflicted by congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease, he was medically paroled after serving eight weeks.

The book – commendably brief but afflicted with one of the worst titles ever put on a cover – comes with a startling coda.

But, afflicted with chronic modesty, he points out that he got most of the way to the finals on byes and the withdrawal of rivals.

Whereas in Fitzgerald's original the infant was an adult old man, such improbability is differently imagined on screen: the baby is of normal size, but afflicted with all the ailments of the aged.

They have little cachet but afflict the many.

But afflicting the comfortable does not mean visually assaulting viewers who are probably trying to relax, eat and watch news while trying to unwind after a busy day.

Gentle but sickly, afflicted with epilepsy, he died childless, the last of his house.

But Benjamin, afflicted by war fever like the rest of the leadership (Jefferson Davis being the notable exception), wouldn't listen.

Never mind that Iraq remains in perilous shape, free of Saddam Hussein and growing economically, but still afflicted by spasms of violence and struggling to move beyond autocratic government.