AFFAIR in a Sentence

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293 example sentences for AFFAIR, such as:
1. The dinner was a formal affair.
2. We shall examine into the affair.
3. The Slatterys were another affair.
4. The whole affair ended in tragedy.
5. This affair was not going to be easy, she knew.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AFFAIR
affair
 n.  a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
 n.  a vaguely specified concern
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Slatterys were another affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Her recent graduation from a skinny pickaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Gerald warmed to the flattery and said that the wedding had been a quiet affair, "not like you girls had," for Joe had only a few days' furlough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now a dollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  His black eyes danced as though amused by the whole affair, as though the earth-splitting sounds and the horrid glare were merely things to frighten children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  To Scarlet, Carreen was still "baby sister," far too young to have had a really serious love affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  But, to Scarlett, watching the bluecoats pour into the front hall, it was not a countrywide affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  In fact the morals of the affair weighed lightly upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  This affair was not going to be easy, she knew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  She seemed so much on the outside of this affair, this purely masculine affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  She would not be driven by fears, day and night, and life would be a placid, unhurried affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  How I get the lumber out is no affair of yours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
1  If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.
2  The whole affair ended in tragedy.
3  We want to keep the whole affair as low-key as possible.
4  So far, the election campaign has been a very gentlemanly affair.
5  The affair was the most sensational political sex scandal of the century.
6  The affair was settled to the complete satisfaction of the client.
7  It was common gossip that they were having an affair.
8  It's common gossip that they're having an affair.
9  The dinner was a formal affair.
10  The evening was a lavish affair with glorious food and an endless supply of champagne.
11  We shall examine into the affair.
12  This affair was brought to a happy termination.
13  She told Parliament she had no knowledge of the affair.
14  This is likely to provoke a further row about the bank's role in the affair.
15  Many ordinary investors stand to lose money in this affair.