The persistent drought, afflicting small farming communities, forced many families to abandon their land.

The afflicting was a heavy burden he carried in silence.

The historian documented several afflictings that changed the village's fate.

Her journals, full of poems about loss and self-affliction, revealed a private struggle no one had suspected.

During Passover, she insisted we only eat bread of affliction to honor our ancestors' hardships.

Academic pressure often leads students to hide their self-afflictions from friends and family.

After months of illness, her afflictedness showed in the tremor of her hands and the fatigue in her voice.

He looked at the empty room afflictedly, feeling the weight of his loss.