Sentence examples for has afflicted with from inspiring English sources

Worse, the tenderness and compassion that animated Mr. Norman's best earlier fiction — like "Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories" and the luminous "Northern Lights" — have given way in these pages to condescension and an impatience with his characters, whom he has afflicted with bad cases of stupidity, narcissism and hard-heartedness.

If you've never experienced any undesirable side effects from using the pill, you probably have a friend who has – afflicted with sudden breakouts, say, or one boob suddenly having a growth spurt.

The show's absurdities ultimately keep it from brandishing the sanctimony that has afflicted shows with religious elements in the past.

Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations, which has afflicted 5 percent of Jordanians with the disease.

Toronto has been afflicted with a number of recent killings that the police have linked to the drug trade.

Take Britain, which for decades has been afflicted with a near-obsessive approach to official secrecy.

Since birth, his older brother, Nenad, 26, has been afflicted with a kidney abnormality that causes his urine to reflux into the kidneys, leading to irritation and chronic infections.

Indeed, the whole 73rd Street row has been afflicted with a severe case of exposed-brick-itis, and few of the houses appear to have original interiors.

Mrs. Romney has been afflicted with both.

Since that time, he has been afflicted with tinnitus.

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