AFFECTATION in a Sentence
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390 example sentences for AFFECTATION, such as:
1. He had a deep affection for his aunt.
2. He didn't show his wife any affection.
3. He felt great affection for his sister.
4. What that kid needs is some love and affection.
5. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
2. He didn't show his wife any affection.
3. He felt great affection for his sister.
4. What that kid needs is some love and affection.
5. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
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Meanings and Examples of AFFECTATION
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affectation
n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 All the affectation of interest she had assumed had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety and fear.
2 The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation of profound thought.
3 With an affectation of respect which evidently struck Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted.
4 He went to balls and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his will.
5 And the little princess began to cry capriciously like a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some affectation.
6 He did not say that the Emperor had kept him, and Prince Andrew noticed this affectation of modesty.
7 The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
8 said Balashev, using the words Your Majesty at every opportunity, with the affectation unavoidable in frequently addressing one to whom the title was still a novelty.
9 It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation.
10 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
11 Michaelis talked frankly about himself, quite frankly, without affectation, simply revealing his bitter, indifferent, stray-dog's soul, then showing a gleam of revengeful pride in his success.
12 There she heard the loudspeaker begin to bellow, in an idiotically velveteen-genteel sort of voice, something about a series of street-cries, the very cream of genteel affectation imitating old criers.
13 'I expect she'll have to be pushed,' said Clifford at last, with an affectation of sang froid.
14 The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this without any affectation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15 Milady changed the conversation without any appearance of affectation, and asked d'Artagnan in the most careless manner possible if he had ever been in England.
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1 Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
2 It's a great feeling when a wild animal shows you affection.
3 That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
4 Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
5 He didn't show his wife any affection.
6 I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
7 If you are a winter grass, affection is the sun, warm your cold body.
8 He had a deep affection for his aunt.
9 The family, is Mulan for the father of story; affection, is this story; affection, is A Bing the moon reflected in the melody.
10 What that kid needs is some love and affection.
11 My greetings come with affection for the nicest kind of birthday that could be wished for you.
12 He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.
13 He felt great affection for his sister.
14 In this society there is a taboo on/against any sort of public display of affection.
15 I happen to think that the physical expression of love and affection is just about the best thing we humans do.