Sentence examples for it often afflicts from inspiring English sources

Smoking-related lung cancer typically strikes older people (the average age at diagnosis is 71), but it often afflicts nonsmokers much earlier, in the 30s and 40s or even younger.

Problems you can strike when running include: Runner's stitch (a sharp pain in the side, diaphragm or below the rib cage) - it's painful and it often afflicts beginner runners.

Doing so saves them from the insularity that so often afflicts those living in the United States--where geography makes it easy to think that the world consists of the 50 states and the couple of foreign countries that border us--but also because I believe the experience enhances professional creativity.

SAY SOMETHING BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE To avoid the issue of timing, as well as the deterioration that often afflicts terminal patients, many experts advise having important conversations while everyone is still able.

There is no vaccine for Type B, which more often afflicts young children.

There is surely a concern that detention may be used inappropriately, as tuberculosis most often afflicts the poor and minorities.

Legionnaires' disease, a respiratory infection that most often afflicts older people, produces symptoms resembling those of pneumonia.

An enthusiastic lady, of a sort that often afflicts banquets and church suppers, sang several hymns of many stanzas, with little melody and much vibrato.

Wenger hopes that Arsenal's recent successes will not be too widely noticed and, therefore, that they can avoid the pressure that often afflicts early-season league leaders.

He knows the rules so well that he can break them with aplomb -- and without the self-conscious posing that often afflicts the young.

Anorexia nervosa, for example, most often afflicts young women exposed to movie and television images of an idealized skinny female body.