afflicted

Example Sentences

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Last year, more than 140 people were killed by floods and landslides in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and Central Africa as a region has recently been afflicted by deadly floods.

From New York Times

It turns out he too had been afflicted by nostalgia, though his came on a few years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

In his final years, as portrayed in “Bridgerton” and “Queen Charlotte,” he was also afflicted with blindness and dementia, though he ultimately lived to be 81 — quite old for the time.

From Los Angeles Times

Close behind with eight each were director Thomas Kail’s “Sweeney Todd” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” the tenderhearted tale of a New Jersey teenager afflicted with a disease that ages her four times as fast as normal.

From Washington Post

She doesn’t feel untouchable; she feels like a friend, and those afflicted by their own lonely tales of relationship-related blunders know she’s rooting for them as much as they’re rooting for her.

From Washington Post