Sentences with affliction
af·flic·tion
A a - Hay fever is an affliction which arrives at an early age.
- They sympathized with us in our affliction.
- He died from a mysterious affliction.
- She lost her sight and is now learning to live with her affliction.
- More often than not, affliction poisons with bitterness the life that it seizes.
- The affliction appears to be similar to tinnitus, a condition in which sufferers hear a constant, high-pitched ringing sound.
- Affliction implies pain, suffering, or distress imposed by illness, loss, misfortune, etc.; , trial suggests suffering that tries one's endurance, but in a weaker sense refers to annoyance that tries one's patience; , tribulation describes severe affliction continuing over a long and trying period; , misfortune is applied to a circumstance or event involving adverse fortune and to the suffering or distress occasioned by it