inflict

How To Use inflict In A Sentence

• Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk.
• And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
• However, the destruction of so many kamikaze flights did a great deal to undermine the potential for damage that the kamikazes could have inflicted.
• The alleged sexual and physical assault was inflicted on a young Latvian man at Station Road, Portarlington recently.
• They inflicted severe psychological damage on their opponents.
• Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
• How much evil is the current government going to inflict on our world before we wake up and boot them out?
• Perhaps she could don a suit and fix a sport dying from self-inflicted cuts? Times, Sunday Times
• Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.