Sentence examples for inflicts I from inspiring English sources

The destruction of some of the last populations of the animals that shaped us, as well as the natural world, inflicts, I feel, a great wound in our lives, diminishing the wonderful planet on which we evolved, shrinking imagination, crushing experience.

I called it my self-inflicted MFA and during the years I was inflicting it, I must've read every book in the Writer's Digest catalog.

But what sort of damage will two to three nights of heavy drinking a week in our twenties inflict?Is it having serious short and longer term effects that I don't know about?

Considering the horrendous damage these vehicles can inflict, I suggest that reckless driving fines be set in direct proportion to the size and weight of the vehicle.

• To the Editor: As someone familiar with the ravages that Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia can inflict, I was moved by your article about the care provided to dementia residents at the Beatitudes nursing home.

I wouldn't inflict it on anyone I didn't know as well as I feel I know you'.

"If I could inflect pain, I inflicted it to the max," Gore declared, describing how he had scalped several victims to satisfy a hair fetish.

Accurately assessing other's ability to inflict costs (i.e. physical size and muscularity) can be an advantageous way to face competition by discerning whether to avoid or to engage in conflict [18], [45], [57].

Overwhelmed by guilt and responsibility for the damage I'd inflicted on those I love, I started to believe everything I'd been told: I was a Bad Mother, a Bad Person, a Bad Writer – my every reason for existence undermined.

Did I inflict it on my own child?

Harvey told the BBC: "Thwok! is my generic tennis poem….I inflicted it on some people on Henman Hill this morning.