Example sentences for: affairs

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

  • Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S.

  • TO: Senate Committee on Appropriations House Committee on Appropriations Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs House Committee on Government Reform

  • "Perceptions that the American president is less interested in the global consequences than in taking any action that will enable him to hold onto power [are] a further demonstration that he has dangerously compromised himself in conducting the nation's affairs, and should be impeached" ( Wall Street Journal editorial).

  • The editors find a silver lining in Chinese outrage over the bombing of its Belgrade embassy: The famously withdrawn country may finally expand its role in world affairs.

  • Throughout the individual is given his due, experience seen as a sort of leveler: There is no tree the wind has not shaken; He whose hands are in water is not like him whose hands are in fire; or, taken a stage further, An imbecile can manage his own affairs better than a wise man the affairs of other people.


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