AFFECT in a Sentence

Learn AFFECT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
390 example sentences for AFFECT, such as:
1. Some drugs can affect your sight.
2. Your opinion will not affect my decision.
3. This would materially affect US security.
4. It seemed as if fatigue could not affect him.
5. The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AFFECT
affect
 v.  connect closely and often incriminatingly
 v.  have an effect upon
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She had little interest in the legislature, feeling that its doings could hardly affect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  She was seeing only one side--how this slap in the Yankees' faces might affect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
4  All these things are carefully avoided by the young, most of whom have learned to speak English and to affect the latest style of clothing.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Even the tricks and cruelties he saw at Durham's had little meaning for him just then, save as they might happen to affect his future with Ona.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  It seemed as if fatigue could not affect him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  But it was not the policy of Hawkeye to affect the least concealment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
8  It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I told him all the circumstances as well as I could, and it seemed, as I spoke, at times to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  He did not understand the words, of course; but the music and manner of singing appeared to affect him strongly, especially when St. Clare sang the more pathetic parts.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Short was the time, however, in which that fear could affect her, for within half an hour after Willoughby's leaving the house, she was again called down stairs by the sound of another carriage.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45
13  Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was; I find, now, to have been my golden rules.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
14  The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
15  Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  This latest cut in government spending will affect income support recipients and their families.
2  Your opinion will not affect my decision.
3  This would materially affect US security.
4  Climate and weather affect every aspect of our lives.
5  The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
6  Environmental problems directly affect the quality of people's lives.
7  An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
8  The decisions by the management committee will affect everyone in the company.
9  Some drugs can affect your sight.
10  Stress and tiredness affect your powers of concentration.
11  Do whatever you want - it won't affect me.
12  Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.
13  The new telephone rates will affect all consumers including businesses.
14  The new law will affect us all, directly or indirectly.
15  The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.