Sentence examples for which afflicted from inspiring English sources

So, too, do crucial topics like lynching, which afflicted black Americans for decades.

He was born poor in Karnataka during the global influenza epidemic, which afflicted his mother.

Its declared aim is to save Nicaragua from the plague of tiny political parties which afflicted it in the 1990s.

He stood there half turned away, with nervous side glances at her, but avoiding her eyes, which afflicted him.

Second, the political ague which afflicted the Polish electorate in the run-up to the parliamentary elections has since been all but cured.

"The Accursed" purports to be the definitive account, written by one M. W. van Dyck II, of the so-called Crosswicks Curse, which afflicted — or infected — the bucolic college town of Princeton, N.J., in the years 1905 and 1906.

Another persistent malady is "cancer cheek," which afflicts tobacco chewers.

Barcelona have succumbed to the built-in obsolescence which afflicts even the greatest teams.

As a result, she has perhaps avoided the overexposure which afflicts so many leading ladies.

Some of the extra cash has gone on new programmes aimed at reducing poverty, which afflicts some 60% of Bolivians.

It emerged from his efforts to address phantom-limb pain, which afflicts up to ninety per cent of amputees.