How to Use affliction in a Sentence

affliction

noun
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  • She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
  • He died from a mysterious affliction.
  • Matzo may be known as the bread of affliction, but the Passover meal is a feast.
    — Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The injury was the start of a lifelong affliction with headaches.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But if the play’s afflictions are ours, so must be its hope.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
  • As is the case for most modern afflictions, there’s an app for that.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As the affliction spread, Italians called it the French Disease.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Her dream was to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease, the affliction that killed their great aunt.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This is a common affliction for those of us who love games.
    — Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • And there is also just the heartache of why — the affliction, the crushing emotional weight.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 3 July 2017
  • Neil Young is trapped in a cycle of second- and third- and fourth-guessing, which is an affliction that is not unique to his brain . .
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Strangers always fail to grasp the importance of the town’s affliction.
    — Suzanne Berne, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • Barton and whoever is the point guard at the time all seem to suffer from the same affliction.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This was a common local affliction in those days, traced to a bad run of Swiss cheese.
    — Hart Pomerantz, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Then comes the loss of Marian Hossa to a skin affliction.
    — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Sores covered my body like Job in his great affliction.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • In fact, Jefferson foresaw an end to a disease that was then the most deadly and most feared affliction in much of the world.
    — Kyle Harper, Time, 5 Oct. 2021
  • And so the fear is that folks could take that to an extreme if someone has an affliction, that isn't life threatening.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Entire sections of the wall have been swallowed by weather and time — and that’s to say nothing of the many wars and manmade afflictions.
    — Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • There the poem ends, after a mere six stanzas of affliction.
    — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Or under-eat, although that doesn’t seem to be your … affliction.
    — Casey Wilson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But the abiding assumption is that grief is a private affliction, and the cure will be private too.
    — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Florida can still be saved, but for this to happen, the state must save itself, or be saved, from this affliction.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • Just one cure for my affliction exists: my cat Calvin, lying atop my shoulder, lulling me to sleep with his purrs.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Every parent who has lost a child will one day die of that chronic affliction.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But the affliction has also been with us for millennia.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • The film is stingy with clear answers about the affliction that causes Luna to develop a vicious bite and a taste for flesh.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • True to his need to avoid the limelight to the end, Peart had battled the disease for over three years without any mention of his affliction reaching the public.
    — Will Collier, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020

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