Sentence examples for had been afflicted from inspiring English sources

The man's spinach plants had been afflicted with downy mildew and were collapsing.

The trees had been afflicted, years before, with a bondage of little holiday lights in strings.

He was sixty years of age and since 1919 had been afflicted by a mental illness.

I exorcised others who had been afflicted by African witch doctors".

Wall Street had been afflicted by the wrong kind of neurochemicals.

At all stages of his life, he had been afflicted with the sense that he was just a "wannabe".

Mrs. Romney has been afflicted with both.

I have been afflicted since childhood.

Even the celebrity class has been afflicted by power loss.

Since that time, he has been afflicted with tinnitus.

They may indeed have been afflicted by a sudden incapacity.