Sentence for afford | Use afford in a sentence

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• He cannot afford it. (4)
• You can afford zat? (10)
• I cannot afford to do it. (10)
• We cannot afford to lose. (18)
• I am glad he can afford it. (4)
• I can afford to despise it. (10)
• She cannot afford to lose him. (10)
• They could not afford car fare. (1)
• And I could afford it so poorly. (10)
• It is a luxury we cannot afford. (10)
• It can afford that ultimate finery. (9)
• But he had not been able to afford more. (8)
• I can afford to laugh at them big houses up there. (10)
• I can afford to laugh at them big houses up there. (22)
• Thank him for his offer to afford you explanations. (10)
• Thank him for his offer to afford you explanations. (22)
• I could afford to pay for lessons myself, I thought. (10)
• But for particulars Isabella could well afford to wait. (4)
• The strong can afford to be magnanimous and forbearing. (10)
• The world cannot afford to be magnanimous, or even just. (10)
• No lover can afford to be incomprehensible for half an hour. (10)
• When you can afford to be a bachelor, the case is otherwise. (10)
• When you can afford to be a bachelor, the case is otherwise. (22)
• He was too useful to the lady for her to afford to let him go. (10)
• He was too useful to the lady for her to afford to let him go. (22)
• Let these rich men who can afford to die, be having the risks. (18)
• Its demeanor and gestures afford auguries, auspicious or sinister. (21)
• If such subjects did not afford gossip at the coffee-houses others did. (18)
• He can better afford to be played ill than any other man that ever wrote. (9)
• Why that should afford him peculiar comfort, none of us could comprehend. (10)
• With something to look forward to she could afford to tolerate and respond. (8)
• You can afford to laugh at it, but I confess it puts your friends in a rage. (10)
• We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war. (4)
• He knew that he could not afford wounded feelings; could not get on without her. (8)
• Their society can afford no pleasure that will atone for such wretchedness as this! (4)
• Its chief aim was to afford singers an opportunity to display their accomplishments. (3)
• We cannot afford to sacrifice the reputation of English arms; it would be suicidal. (18)
• If the trade goes through successfully we can afford to give you one third of the profits. (18)
• He seemed to be looking in her countenance for that explanation which her lips did not afford. (4)
• One question is, can I countervail the burden I shall be, by such help to you as I can afford? (10)
• He could afford to smile now at his past discomfort, having no longer the sense of duty unfulfilled. (8)
• He proved to me that he could afford it; and that being the case, I was convinced he could not do better. (4)
• It was not a day when I could really afford to forget money due me, but then it was not a great deal of money. (9)
• He could not afford to pet his frequent shortness of breath and the pain in his side at the expense of liberty. (8)
• Their arrival seemed to afford him real satisfaction, and their comfort to be an object of real solicitude to him. (4)
• You see me married, with enough to live on, enough to entertain with, enough to afford a bit of travel now and then. (16)
• Irene cast a mute look of imploring at her mother, who was too much preoccupied to afford her the protection it asked. (9)
• Its ingenuity, can always afford a refined pleasure, and it can often, at some risk to itself, convey a valuable truth. (9)
• It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure. (4)
• You have not been so very tender to your Cecilia that you can afford to give her fresh reasons for sorrowful perplexity. (10)
• Should he grin and bear it, and by doing nothing show these fellows that he could afford to despise their cowardly device? (8)
• Out of a balance running rather low, she sent him remittances; this was her holiday, too, and she could afford to pay for it. (8)
• She had a large acquaintance, of course professionally, among those who can afford to buy, and she disposes of my merchandise. (4)
• He must have known for a certainty that if the company could afford to insure him he could not afford to let it. (7)
• It was at one of those assembly dances, which afford the only outlet to the passions of the population of seaside watering-places. (8)
• She had no natural connexions to assist her even with their counsel, and she could not afford to purchase the assistance of the law. (4)
• But now, flushed and confident with his many victories, Marlborough could afford to spare a few regiments for the conquest of Quebec. (19)
• This came to the notice of the Governor, who told them that Canada could not afford to have her young men unaccustomed to snow-shoes. (19)
• As he had come off unhurt in person and property, he could afford to be more generously amused than if he had suffered damage in either. (9)
• The word seemed to afford Dr. Mulbridge the degree of relief which can come only from an exactly significant and luminously exegetic word. (9)
• He reserved it because Tonans was an opponent, tricksy and surprising now and then, amusing too; unlikely to afford him serious reflections. (10)
• Yet the necessary capital and the cost of production are so much smaller than ours that their various backers can afford to keep them afloat. (16)
• The Marches admired the impressive sight with a thrill of patriotic pride in the fact that the whole world perhaps could not afford just the like. (9)
• These Sunday morning railroad pilgrimages carry the circus through all climates and localities and, unless too protracted, afford a sense of keen enjoyment. (21)
• To speak, without the explanation of his previous reticence which this letter would afford, seemed useless: even the desire to speak was absent, passion being absent. (10)

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Definition of afford:

• afford, af-frd’, v.t. to yield or produce: to be able to sell, to expend, or to bear the expense of. (0)

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