Sentence examples for the afflicts from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
Hoult and Stewart certainly give it their all, and both deliver sensitive, nuanced performances – but Doremus never really manages to solve the problem the afflicts the first half of the film: with everything and everyone moving at half speed, there's an inbuilt dramatic inertness to proceedings that no amount of intense whispering and tremulous handholding can overcome.
To comfort the afflicted.
It offers little comfort to the afflicted.
One of the afflicted is Peter Pagan.
"I managed to afflict the afflicted," Mr. Kristof wrote.
For some of the afflicted, the paralysis was permanent.
To the afflicted workers this was "social dumping".
It's said that good satire should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Don't blame the victims, the afflicted responded.
Among the afflicted, some lost the will to live.
(While I'm at it, Dunne also originated the line "Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable," frequently misattributed, too).
