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• Tariff-induced higher prices and supply chain problems are just the start of the pain Trumponomics will inflict.2025 May 13, Dean Baker, “Never Mind the Stock Market, the Economy Is Blinking a Big Warning”, in The Nation, retrieved 13 May 2025. From the entry Trumponomics
• She pulled at the pants, inflicting some painful cow bites on Carl's legs.2012, J. W. Stockton, Fardnock's Revenge, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry cow bite
• It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23. From the entry freedom
• The goal of punishment is to inflict pain and seek revenge.1998, Terry M. Levy, Michael Orlans, Attachment, trauma, and healing. From the entry consequence
• The Cyclopses thus initially assume that Polyphemus's suffering has been intentionally inflicted by some hostile figure.1993, Mette Hjort, The Strategy of Letters, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry cyclops
• Two types of “loss” are inflicted upon one who suffers personal injuries.1981, C[harles] D[avid] Baker, “Remedies”, in Tort (Concise College Texts), 3rd edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry incompensable
• The Rand-type thinkman thinks only about death and how to inflict it on a supergargantuan scale.1959, The Nation, Volume 188, J.H. Richards, page 60. From the entry supergargantuan
• Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1…. From the entry invade
• The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6). From the entry effect
• Some of these patients present a traumatic dermatitis, or a self inflicted lesion of the skin.1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 189. From the entry rupophobia
• Punishment for theft was inflicted, either by fine, imprisonment, or hard labour, or by branding.1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 115. From the entry branding
• Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for.a. 1905, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, W. R. Caldwell & Co. (1905), page 78. From the entry account for
• It will personally yell at the clouds for the next six years for inflicting this tragedy upon you.2019 July 31, Amy Remeikis, “Arthur Sinodinos calls for Liberal party 'bullying' review to be expedited – as it happened”, in Katharine…. From the entry yell at the clouds
• The trap at the beginning of the zone inflicts both Berserk and Confuse, forcing your characters to rapidly attack each other.2017, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age - Strategy Guide. From the entry party wipe
• This allowed me to continue inflicting this injury on myself long after I otherwise could have beared, I think.2011 June 15, Tony White, Working with Suicidal Individuals: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support, Jessica Kingsley…. From the entry beared
• It is common for bedbugs to inflict a series of bites in a row ("breakfast, lunch, and dinner").2011, William D. James, Dirk Elston, Timothy Berger, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin E-Book: Clinical Dermatology, page 435. From the entry breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Burrell, known for his knack for tormenting the Mets, is expected to inflict similar damage in the ultracompetitive American League East.2009 January 6, Ben Shpigel, “Pat Burrell Signs With Rays; Milton Bradley Expected to Join Cubs”, in New York Times. From the entry ultracompetitive
• He kept inflicting his papa-bear tone on her.2009, Chris Marie Green, chapter 3, in The Path of Razors, Ace Books, page 24. From the entry papa-bear
• To torment, inflict pains, sorrows, rival and attack great destinies is your lot”, he croaked, paused and bellowed.”2008, Marcel D. Chukwubueze Ugwumadu, The Fiendish Triangle, Cel-Bez & Co. Publishers, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry villainly
• Today I still have a hole in the front of my skull from the Chinese water torture inflicted on me.2007, Dan Clark, The Thrill of Teaching, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry beyond belief
• He's a sado-sicko, gets high on inflicting pain.2005, George Evans, Pale Horse Among Us, page 174. From the entry head case
• Most of the wounds inflicted by these mating bites heal fairly quickly, but sometimes they can be quite severe.2004, Mark Carwardine, Shark, page 63. From the entry mating bite
• Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings.2003, Dennis Krebs, Special Operations Mission Planning Field Guide, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry hive
• You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public.2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet). From the entry muso
• If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4- 24 points of crushing damage each round.1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 338. From the entry marilith
• I need to get it all out at once, inflicting the damage in one foul swoop before facing the fallout left in my wake.2017, BJ Harvey, One Shot, page 59. From the entry in one foul swoop
• Stuart Elden, for instance, proposes to use the concept of “terricide” to name the damage being inflicted on the living surfaces of the globe.2014, Gastón R. Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction, Duke University Press, page 83. From the entry terricide
• It says, "I want to wear fitted capris, but my thighs are too large to be inflicted upon the world without being covered."2010 September 28, “A few things...”, in Go Tracy Go. From the entry skapri
• In their commentary, the Tosafot conclude that it is assur to inflict a wound in one's body (chovel be'atzmo) even if he benefits from it.2006, Rabbi Alfred S. Cohen, editor, Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, numbers 51–56. From the entry assur
• These stress the inamicability, the pain inflicted by nature upon man, or rather, nature’s capacity to prevent human beings from working their will upon nature.1985, Jon Christopher Crocker, “Raka and Aroe: The Production of ‘Souls’”, in Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and…. From the entry inamicability
• Although we had again been forced to withdraw, and finally abandon the first line of defense, the Filamericans had inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy.1984, Paul Ashton, Bataan Diary, page 109. From the entry Filamerican
• She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered.1966, Reports of Cases in Law and Equity Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, page 933. From the entry choking
• The death penalty was inflicted only upon the blasphemer who used the Ineffable Name, the Shem HaMephorash, YHWH, or its equivalent Adonai (“Our Lord”).1963, George Horowitz, The Spirit of Jewish Law. From the entry Shem HaMephorash
• The two worst defeats that the Byzantines suffered in the Comneni period were both inflicted on them by the Saljuqs in Asia Minor.1949, The World of the Middle Ages, page 330. From the entry Saljuq
• The right forearm and elbow show heavy bruises, with considerable extravasation from the surface vessels, showing they were inflicted some time before death.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon. From the entry extravasation
• The "Pawang" also inflicts death from a distance, by burning the cordiform top of a newly opened bunch of bananas on the tree.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176. From the entry cordiform
• The wounds inflicted upon the Government men were frightful; practically every man on the Government side who was killed had been shot with dum-dums.1915, Philip J. Sampson, Capture of De Wet: The South African Rebellion, 1914, E. Arnold, page 188. From the entry dumdum

Meaning of inflict

1. verb To thrust upon; to impose.

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Questions about inflict in a sentence

How do you use inflict in a sentence?

Inflict is used as a verb. For example: “They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession.”

What is a short sentence with inflict?

“Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings.”

What does inflict mean?

Inflict means to thrust upon; to impose.