Example Sentences

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Bay: director, executive producer and chief inflicter behind the “Transformers” franchise.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2017

Mr. Scott said of Mr. Eavis: “He’s gone from being the demon, the inflicter of horrors on the countryside, to being everybody’s hero.”

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2015

It is so easy to wound another’s feelings that sometimes the inflicter of so much pain hardly realises the anguish that he causes.

From The Triumph of Jill by Young, F.E. Mills

I can offer no suggestion as to how the inflicter of the wound got in or out.

From The Big Bow Mystery by Zangwill, Israel

He could not bear to admit the possibility of having been the involuntary inflicter of such wrong as to send the girl to prison for an offense she had not committed.

From Within the Law by Veiller, Bayard