Sentence examples for was inflicting from inspiring English sources
verb
To thrust upon; to impose.
- They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession.
I called it my self-inflicted MFA and during the years I was inflicting it, I must've read every book in the Writer's Digest catalog.
One highlight for the United States was inflicting the only defeat on the eventual champion, Israel.
Hall told her about the abuse Husband was inflicting on him.
While Pan Am was projecting the American dream to five continents, Mao was inflicting famine and cultural revolution on China.
New figures from Bloomberg further underlined the damage the government was inflicting on the renewable energy industry, critics said.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Syrian state news agency said the army was "inflicting heavy losses" on armed groups in the area.
Blow after blow was inflicted upon my naked body.
No such trauma was inflicted on its supporters.
All the damage was inflicted on that one day.
The process itself was the punishment, and it was inflicted almost exclusively on blacks and Latinos.
Here, the cage was real, and the pain was inflicted on someone other than herself.
