Sentence examples for was inflicted upon from inspiring English sources

Blow after blow was inflicted upon my naked body.

The pit, a negative image of the original tower, is the wound that was inflicted upon us collectively.

In Britain this contraction was accelerated by a series of union defeats, the most drastic of which was inflicted upon the National Union of Mineworkers in the great strike of 1984 85.

The involvement of the former Fulham and Northern Ireland manager will bring back bad memories for fans of Lincoln, whose last relegation, in 1999, was inflicted upon them on the final day of the season by a Wycombe team then managed by Sanchez.

Many of them are repeating the cycle of abuse that was inflicted upon them when they were studying for their Ph.D. It's not that they can't be reasonable people, or that they're innately cruel.

Minor damage was inflicted upon several structures.

Anyway, I was there because I thought it was the least I owed my four pigs, to see what I was inflicting upon them.

The bed was so perfectly comfy that tearing myself away from it at 6am the next morning as required by the ridiculous boat departure time I had chosen felt like I was inflicting upon myself something nearing physical violence.

The purpose of all the facts he sets forth is the exposure of the "sin" of domination, oppression, and injustice that the European was inflicting upon the newly discovered native peoples.

A Swedish linguist tells him that "as an educated person with a broad experience of the world, you had a duty to help others... learn from the mistakes all around you, mistakes that your culture was inflicting upon theirs".

I was feeling so tired for all the pain I was inflicting upon myself.