Sentence examples for that afflicted him from inspiring English sources

Apart from Lyon's bowling figures there was one other plus for the Australians: Rogers has clearly recovered from the dizzy spells that afflicted him at Lord's.

Lowell's letters to Bishop, from which this edited selection is drawn, cover a period of thirty years, spanning his successive marriages — to Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood — and his harrowing breakdowns, a result of the manic-depressive illness that afflicted him all his life.

It seemed not to be sightlessness that afflicted him, though.

The raspy hoarseness that afflicted him all week made him sound positively Clintonesque.

He also addresses the acute depression that afflicted him after the uprising.

The labor that the farm required seemed to leave Burns with a heart condition that afflicted him later in life.

Returning to Seattle, in 1998, Ms. Clemente got pregnant again, after an encounter with a stranger, and Santo, her son, was born with a rare disease that afflicts him with blisters if he stays too long in the sun.

That point is raised every time Pope John Paul II, who is 83, shows new signs of the degenerative Parkinson's disease that afflicts him or of the other ailments bestowed on him by age and an attempted assassination.

In retrospect, that childhood preoccupation seems to have been the early onset of the full-blown gastronomic romanticism that afflicts him; this book is the product of his symptoms.

He is a deliberate study, if not a quick one, and he masters his fear of water and his ignorance of cooking in the interest of self-improvement and in the hope of finding some respite from the loneliness that afflicts him.

Why write a song about diabetes if the illness that afflicts him is a tumor?