Some sentence examples which use the word 'afflict'
According to the laws of the society of which I am a member, all the evils which afflict humanity arise from faith in external teachings and submission to authority.
He attributes all the evils that afflict society to the pressure of competition, whereby the weaker are driven to the wall.
Having vanquished him, they not only afflicted him with blindness, but deprived him also of the power of song.