INFLICT in a Sentence

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76 example sentences for INFLICT, such as:

1. I won't inflict myself on you today.
2. It's wrong to inflict pain on any animal.
3. The strikes inflicted serious damage on the economy.
4. He was clearly intent on inflicting serious harm on someone.
5. The guerrillas inflicted heavy casualties on the local population.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFLICT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inflict
 v.  impose something unpleasant; cause
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  He deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who has offended him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the truth.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
4  If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
5  He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I won't inflict corporal punishment on you," he says, "or put you in the rack.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  But it is a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
8  He cast down his eyes and hurried out as if it were none of his business, careful as he went not to inflict any accidental injury on the young lady.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
9  With reference to army discipline, orders were continually being issued to inflict severe punishment for the nonperformance of military duties and to suppress robbery.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER IX
10  Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old Blucher disgraced himself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
11  The vocal mothers consult after each confession and inflict the penance aloud.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
12  There is no situation, however terrible it may be, which can authorize a creature of God to inflict death upon himself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
13  I willingly submit to any punishment your Eminence may please to inflict upon me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 67 CONCLUSION
14  But then, again, an accustomed eye had likewise its own anguish to inflict.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
15  To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
Example Sentence:
1  It's wrong to inflict pain on any animal.
2  Therefore it is easy to assume that this must be a deliberate, callous attempt to inflict hurt.
3  I won't inflict myself on you today.
4  United Nations officials warn that malaria does not only inflict terrible suffering, it's also damaging Africa's economies.
5  They learned that Lehman Brothers had collapsed in bankruptcy, inflicting billions of new losses on a financial system already rocked by a cratering housing market and a tightening credit crunch.
6  He was clearly intent on inflicting serious harm on someone.
7  But he will be remembered as the man who led Italy's industrial renaissance after the damage inflicted on the country during the Second World War.
8  She hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel.
9  The strikes inflicted serious damage on the economy.
10  The guerrillas inflicted heavy casualties on the local population.
11  Given the heavy damage inflicted on many islands in the archipelago nation, it is not surprising that conflicting reports and erroneous information have occasionally found their way into the reporting chain.