AFFECTED in a Sentence

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390 example sentences for AFFECTED, such as:
1. The disease has affected her sight.
2. I was affected by the story altogether.
3. The waiter appeared to be particularly affected.
4. We have not been directly affected by the latest cuts.
5. Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of AFFECTED
affected
 a.  speaking or behaving in artificial way; emotionally stirred or moved; infected or attacked
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  Even the poor baby at Hester's bosom was affected by the same influence, for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  These words, which conveyed to Elinor a direct avowal of his love for her sister, affected her very much.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
7  She sat in an agony of impatience which affected every feature.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
9  The waiter appeared to be particularly affected.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
10  I dare say no words she could have uttered would have affected me so much, then, as her calling me her child.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
11  I did not fail to assure him that I would store these precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so, for, at the time, they affected me visibly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
12  For your very great politeness, I am sure, said Miss Murdstone; with an irony which no more affected my aunt, than it discomposed the cannon I had slept by at Chatham.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
13  I was affected by the story altogether.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
14  The climate affected his dye; it did very well in Russia, but it was no go here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15  Steerforth had made a speech about me, in the course of which I had been affected almost to tears.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to.
2  Road development in the area has been severely affected by the conservation programmes of the council.
3  We tend to assume that everybody has a car these days and will be affected by these increases.
4  The trade union movement was swept along by the same tidal wave of patriotism which affected the country as a whole.
5  The whole food chain is affected by the over-use of chemicals in agriculture.
6  It's difficult to quantify how many people will be affected by the change in the law.
7  People were concerned that pets or wildlife could be affected by the pesticides.
8  Trading has been adversely affected by the downturn in consumer spending.
9  Each of us in turn had to describe how alcohol had affected our lives.
10  Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
11  We have not been directly affected by the latest cuts.
12  The disease has affected her sight.
13  The entire locality has been affected by the new motorway.
14  Just about everybody will be affected by the tax increases.
15  The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and, to a lesser extent, wildlife.