How to Use "affliction" with Example Sentences

1. I do not understand why affliction has been permitted to smite me .

2. They have found comfort under calamity , and refuge and hope in affliction .

3. Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful .

4. This is not just an american affliction .

5. It also enumerates the ways that lead a thinking marxist out of this affliction .