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Example sentences for: affair

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Saying she shared "the sense of disappointment and bewilderment" over the Lewinsky affair and the bombings in Sudan and Afghanistan, Holland said she also believed "there are very many people alive in Ireland, and further afield, today who would be dead were it not for President Clinton's commitment to the search for peace in Northern Ireland."
The longer Washington remains without its traditional appetite for scandal, the more careless powerful people will get, and eventually one of them will get blown up in a big, juicy affair which will have the politicians and pundits joyfully going off the diet and gorging on all the sordid details.
Critics argue that while the affair may be private, the cover-up isn't.
President Cigar (I mean Clinton) made teen smoking a federal affair two years ago when he unleashed the Food and Drug Administration on the problem.
You suggest they destroyed all trace of the affair, by mutual decision.