Sentence examples for visit upon from inspiring English sources

"visit upon" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is a phrase meaning to inflict upon, or to bring something upon someone, usually something negative. For example, "The gods visited their wrath upon the town."

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"Why visit upon them the lifetime of inferiority, angst and chagrin?" he asked.

Yet not even Catiline visited such troubles on Rome as Johnson has now contrived to visit upon Britain.

We are doing that; we don't want to visit upon future generations the dark days of the past," he said.

Then my brother would be a very uncomfortable companion — then he would visit upon you his disappointment and discontent".

The film uses humor to assail the abuses we visit upon animals in the name of food production.

Mr. Rich once again trumpets the evil that is the Clinton machine, and the disaster it would love to visit upon us.

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This was visited upon her.

He was visited upon me once before.

Therein lies the curse visited upon humanity.

Cruel and vicious was the calumny visited upon Cameron Mi and Johnson KS.

In my experience, no-hopers would sometimes be visited upon my father.

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