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

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

The inflicter of suffering and the sufferer are one.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur