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Example sentences for: affords
How can you use “affords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The dimensions of the library's books are perfect, their typeface is elegant and eminently readable without being precious, and most refuting of Kerr's odd complaint, their pages are of a thickness that affords pliability and easy separation while maintaining economy in bulk and weight.
The Qing Dynasty pavilion on top (Yunlugong) affords a fine panorama.
His weekly silence annoys some but affords him "flashes of clarity."
As another example, the indigenous people of the Arctic are, as far as I know, still commonly referred to in the United States as Eskimos; but for some time now the PC term in Canada has been Inuit, a term which affords great scope for PC snobbery, as it can be fairly complicated; the people are Inuit; the language is Inuitituk; and an individual is an Inuk.
The phrase, for instance, makes no good sense in English; and this affords a presumption that it was borrowed from abroad.
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