Examples of 'was afflicted' in a sentence

Meaning of "was afflicted"

The phrase 'was afflicted' typically means that someone was suffering from a physical or mental condition that caused them distress or pain. It implies that the person was affected or burdened by an illness, hardship, or adversity. The phrase is often used in the past tense to describe a previous state of affliction

How to use "was afflicted" in a sentence

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was afflicted
I was afflicted once myself with home life.
A few days later the sow was afflicted by a disease.
Dunstan was afflicted by illness in his final years.
It is recorded that his son was afflicted by an evil spirit.
But he was afflicted by a disease that affected his speech.
Most of his life he was afflicted with sickness.
He was afflicted with cataract in one eye.
In his last years he was afflicted with a severe disease.
I was afflicted with polio as a child.
A friend of mine was afflicted by this disease.
I was afflicted by the same condition.
Even the earth itself was afflicted.
The entire crew was afflicted with food poisoning.
From the very beginning of his reign he was afflicted.
My mother was afflicted by this terrible disease.

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He had lived uprightly and yet he was afflicted and distressed.
It seems he was afflicted with a particularly troublesome skin ailment.
The great difficulty was that he was afflicted with attacks of rage.
He was afflicted with a serious disease.
Philip himself was afflicted.
Yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth.
There was a woman whose husband was afflicted with leprosy.
I was afflicted with three wounds.
His health deteriorated in old age and he was afflicted with loss of eyesight.
She was afflicted with agoraphobia.
Her physical condition began to worsen and she was afflicted by bouts of paranoia.
The land was afflicted by drought.
The sort of medium utilized for the storage that was afflicted with data loss.
He was afflicted with a purulent sore on one side of his thigh.
Several years have passed since the island was afflicted by unrest and attempted putsches.
He was afflicted with amnesia and never did regain his memory.
From its very beginning the republic was afflicted with the stigma of the military defeat.
He was afflicted with sepsis and his colon became infected.
Nearly the entire team as well as the coaching staff was afflicted with the disease.
Leopoldine was afflicted by terrible leg pains and eventually went blind.
It was also at this time that Judea was afflicted by a severe famine.
It was afflicted with several defeats.
In all of their afflictions He was afflicted.
He was afflicted with a large pressure sore in the buttocks region.
In all your afflictions He was afflicted.
She was afflicted with rickets and died unmarried and childless.
After the second world war Flanders was afflicted by very heavy unemployment.
Ian was afflicted with an undisclosed illness for most of his life.
Rama Varma was an extremely weak monarch and was afflicted by illness throughout his reign.
She was afflicted with diabetes which led to gangrene of the foot.
Worse the Inca Empire was afflicted by a civil war.
He was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them.
But it is the reason that I was afflicted.
He was afflicted with a hereditary mental illness and attended a sanatorium at regular intervals.
One day I was talking with a man who was afflicted.

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