Example sentences for: afford

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

  • On the other hand, if you live frugally, then you can obviously afford to pay more taxes.

  • The good news is that when a movie is good , pretty much everyone can afford to see it, which isn't true, say, of a concert reuniting Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band (though in the latter case the price differential is not the Boss's fault, but rather the fault of ticket scalpers and brokers).

  • Thanks to Cartier, so apparently did every commoner who could afford it between 1900 and 1939, to match the royals and nobles who had inherited theirs.

  • 4) It's not a miracle or a breakthrough, it's reckless self-indulgence, because the kids will either die or suffer lifelong medical problems, and society can't afford to spend millions of dollars on every preemie.

  • Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.


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