AFFORDABLE in a Sentence

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265 example sentences for AFFORDABLE, such as:
1. The team can't afford to foul up in this game.
2. He couldn't then afford the money to go on the trip.
3. There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford.
4. The restaurant serves good food at affordable prices.
5. The truth is we can't afford to keep all the staff on.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AFFORDABLE
affordable
 a.  that you have the financial means for
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  Whereas, in both particulars, they did the opposite, arming the commons and increasing their number, and thus affording endless occasions for disorder.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  And there can be no more effectual means for checking calumny than by affording ample facilities for impeachment, which is as useful in a commonwealth as the other is pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
3  It might, I grant, be harder to demonstrate this great superiority of foot over horse, had we not very many modern examples affording the clearest proof of it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
4  To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
5  Their taking her home, and affording her their personal protection and countenance, is such a sacrifice to her advantage as years of gratitude cannot enough acknowledge.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
6  Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  These words appeared to be addressed to the young lady, and were perhaps uttered with the view of affording Nancy time to recover herself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  To them it is only a moment affording opportunities to undermine a rival and obtain an extra cross or ribbon.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
13  In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
14  One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
15  Melanie knew she had Ashley securely, so she could well afford to show such a Christian spirit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  The restaurant serves good food at affordable prices.
2  This weapons system is an affordable, hi-tech solution.
3  Advances in microchip technology have made these cameras smaller and cheaper and affordable to the mass market.
4  Though I'm a woman, but I did it affordable, to put next.
5  Finding affordable housing can be a difficult proposition in many large cities.
6  I think in the developing world we need treatments that are more affordable and more accessible , and we need an HIV vaccine that can have the same impact on the HIV epidemic as vaccines have had on polio, smallpox and other diseases.
7  We think the key to making this stuff more commonplace is keeping it affordable for everyone.
8  There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford.
9  We will be grateful for whatever amount you can afford.
10  The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money.
11  Being able to afford a drink would be a comfort in these tough times.
12  For my return journey, I felt I could afford the extra and travel first class.
13  He couldn't then afford the money to go on the trip.
14  The truth is we can't afford to keep all the staff on.
15  The team can't afford to foul up in this game.