Sentence examples for only afflicts from inspiring English sources

He believes, solipsistically, that solipsism is something that only afflicts other people.

Now, it usually only afflicts people wearing bowties, but the politicians those people donate to are also at risk.

Inconvenient as this may be to some, there isn't some inherent character flaw that only afflicts the poor.

Everyone always assumes shyness is something that only afflicts the young, but the condition persists and Larkin was never given the understanding he deserved for it". As with Auden, Larkin saw something he liked in the neophyte poet.

10 PE is a compulsory subject There has been a big rise in children saying they can't do PE, or bringing a note from home, and some excuses are dubious to say the least (for example, an ankle problem that seems to go on for months, or a cold that only afflicts the child on one particular day of the week).

Lonald has a very rare disease that only afflicts ogres and giants that make it difficult for him to rock out too hard or too often.

The problem does not only afflict the poorest populations.

Ideology, as has been pointed out by Amis's sometime opponent Terry Eagleton, among others, has the useful characteristic of only afflicting other people.

Fictitious memories do not only afflict those who have been traumatized; people with stable backgrounds also struggle to distinguish between experiences that they had themselves and those they absorbed through someone else's stories.

The team made sure the damage would only afflict seeds by linking the genes to a genetic switch, active only in embryos, from another kind of plant.

Of course, insurance plans cover many things that only afflict men, such as prostate cancer.