Example sentences for: afford

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

  • We cannot afford to lose your valuable financial support and hope you might consider an increase in your personal or corporate gift for 1991.

  • The safest rule for amateurs is to decide in advance how much you can afford to lose (which you probably will) and stick rigidly to it.

  • Inexpensive strip malls, whatever their appearance, are where little business are born, since budding entrepreneurs can't afford the rents that elegant town centers charge.

  • The patients as a group were also distinctly middle-aged, no doubt reflecting the fact that older individuals are more likely to be able to afford non-insured medical care (obesity treatment isn't covered under most policies), and the time to devote to their own needs.

  • I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.


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