English example sentences with "inflicting"

A sadist likes inflicting pain; a masochist, receiving it.
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The discrepancy between the high moral cost of inflicting pain on these creatures and the insignificant benefit of improving one's appearance is such that the latter cannot be said to outweigh the former.
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Sami received pleasure out of inflicting pain.
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Cheap produce from Europe is inflicting damage on Algeria.
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In the street, vans roared past him; brutality blared out on placards; men were trapped in mines; women burnt alive; and once a maimed file of lunatics being exercised or displayed for the diversion of the populace (who laughed aloud), ambled and nodded and grinned past him, in the Tottenham Court Road, each half apologetically, yet triumphantly, inflicting his hopeless woe.
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Another study by the University of Basel also finds dry weather and heat are inflicting long-term damage on European forests, especially pine and beech trees.
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He was a squat, corpulent, middle-sized man, with something of the gentleman about him, and that peculiar mild tone—especially while he was inflicting punishment—which is so much more terrible to children than the angriest looks and gestures.
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They're inflicting violence on women.
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Antonio enjoyed inflicting pain on other people.
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Nicholas II loved pogroms because they distracted the people from his many crimes while inflicting harm on a community that tended to oppose his rule.
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