Example Sentences

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He is hoping that rising domestic consumption will absorb the blow US tariffs will inflict on Chinese exports.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

Billie Jean worries that her groundbreaking independence will inflict tremendous pain on her traditional parents and wound her supportive husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Upcoming increases will inflict more damage on smaller restaurants that cannot afford to automate services, said Charles Steele, chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College.

From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2022

Bank of Japan boss Haruhiko Kuroda still views yen weakness as a positive for Japan, but lawmakers fret that the yen, at 20-year lows, will inflict damage via costlier food and fuel.

From Reuters • Apr. 29, 2022

And yet for all this, this club will inflict His faultful pain, and him enough convict He only reading show'd; learning, nor wit; Only Dame Gilian's fire his desk will fit.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant