Example sentences for: affable

How can you use “affable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his memoir To End a War , U.N. ambassador nominee Richard Holbrooke calls Milosevic intelligent and downright affable.

  • In the 1940s my father, a certified public accountant in Boston, acquired a client named Morris Kaplan, an affable, outgoing insurance salesman (pronounced SALE-ess-mahn) whose accent reflected his origins in the Pale of Settlement, specifically in Minske Gebernyeh: Mr. Kaplan was an echt Litvak.

  • He's "outgoing," "affable," "tactile," and "back-slapping."

  • Rukeyser's Sphinx was not very affable, either.)

  • Reviewers call Tim Allen ( Home Improvement) affable.


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