How to use in-sentence of “afford”:
– Unaipon took out provisional patents for 19 inventions, but he could not afford to get any of his inventions fully patented.
– EnWP has many editors, they can afford to do things like “DYK”.
– The cost of public health is supported by the government, but users must pay a fee which varies in accordance with the capacity of the user to afford it.
– The directors could not afford to keep buying new strips every time the colours ran so they decided to change their colours.
– At first, only the rich could afford chocolate.
– After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg, but were unable to afford to stay there.
– Since he was very rich he could afford to do this.
Example sentences of “afford”:
- They were built in the early days of radio broadcasting by amateurs, and people who could not afford a well-made radio.
- Eventually, she managed to bring Lars home, leaving him in the care of her parents until she could afford to raise him in Stockholm.
- In 1669 he went to study at the university of Altdorf, but after a year he had to leave because his father could not afford to keep him.
– They were built in the early days of radio broadcasting by amateurs, and people who could not afford a well-made radio.
– Eventually, she managed to bring Lars home, leaving him in the care of her parents until she could afford to raise him in Stockholm.
– In 1669 he went to study at the university of Altdorf, but after a year he had to leave because his father could not afford to keep him.
– Despite its many successes, Team Columbia does not seem to be able to afford as many top riders as they have, and due to their many victories, a lot of riders were targeted by other teams for the 2010 season.
– Hungary was itself assailed by the Turks, and could no longer afford to try to control Dalmatia.
– Building from that one planet, he/she later has the option to keep on developing that planet or to expand his/her colony to include up to as many planets they can afford to build, originally 9 planets.
– Many people there cannot afford to pay high prices for drugs, which means pharmaceutical companies are not interested in developing new drugs for such diseases.
– A lucky few could even afford books illustrating these antiquities.
– Most of his life he was supported by his friends who gave him manuscript paper when he could not afford it.
– Although he passed the exams necessary to go to university, he was unable to go because his parents could not afford the fees.
More in-sentence examples of “afford”:
– Richer students can study in a place far from their hometown, but kids from poor neighbourhoods may be unable to afford college at all without a scholarship of some kind.
– By the twentieth century, the rules of bonsai were very well known in Japan and many people could afford to grow their own bonsai.
– This usually goes together with “economic growth.” As people in a country become healthier and get better education, they also usually get richer, because healthy, educated workers are more “productive and richer workers can afford health and education.
– Any Egyptian who could afford to pay for the expensive process of preserving their bodies for the afterlife was allowed to mummify themselves.
– Fur was worn, mostly as a lining layer, by those who could afford it.
– He had first bought a plastic one in Los Angeles in 1954 because he could not afford a metal one.
– It, however, does not afford him the right and authority to dismiss the prime minister.
– Most roads have a lot of traffic, so most Malawians prefer to, or can only afford to, walk or use a bicycle.
– The opera was very successful; Strauss made so much money with “Salome” that he could afford to buy a beautiful house in the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
– Rangers entered administration in 2012 because they owed money which they could not afford to repay.
– Historically, the term was used for women who could afford a comfortable lifestyle, because a wealthy man financed that so that she will be available for his sexual pleasure.
– The factory may be owned by a rich person who can afford the machines, or by a company.
– He could afford to send his son to university but he made difficulties about it.
– He became a roommate of Sheldon Cooper because he couldn’t afford an apartment with only his own money.
– Julia Anderson could not afford a lawyer, and the court eventually sided for the Dunbars.
– This made the price become down and people were able to afford them.
– Wealthy people — such as royalty — could afford to have clothes made out of fine linen or silk.
– This was the highest amount possible by law and the judge thought Bushido could not afford that.
– So, in the 19th century, many ordinary people could afford to buy books and could actually read them.
– In Ancient Greece, soldiers had to buy their own armour and weapons so men too poor to afford them became trireme rowers in wartime.
– The Venetians, to whom the Dalmatians were already bound by language and culture, could afford to concede liberal terms as its main goal was to prevent the development of any dangerous political or commercial competitor on the eastern Adriatic.
– He claimed that Minardi could not afford to modify their cars.
– Because the two side of the brain communicate so intensively, they can afford to specialise in doing somewhat different things.
– Her family could not afford to send her to high school.
– The average person could not afford it.
– Johnson said that her style of drag was not serious because she could not afford expensive clothes.
– Ford knew that if he built his cars on an assembly line instead of one at a time like other cars, he could make a car that anyone could afford and would be built like cars that cost more money.
– This user was very disruptive at enWP and we can’t afford or allow that to happen here.
– Despite winning what seemed like a lopsided battle, Lee lost men and equipment he could not afford to lose.
– He was poor, and lived alone in a large house in Torquay that he could not afford to heat properly.
– As a result, many of his constituents were able to afford them.
– But the USA could not afford to appear lose the race to the moon to the Soviet Union, and so the moon landings were faked.
– A kicker cannot afford to miss too many field goals or they can find themselves traded off the team.
– They were not able to afford any, as the planet concentrates only on money, not galactic credits.
– He argued that when eating, one should not eat too richly, for it could lead to dissatisfaction later, such as the grim realization that one could not afford such delicacies in the future.
– She kept the price of Slinky low so all children could afford one.
– He wanted the tickets to be cheap so that people who were not rich would be able to afford to go.
– As a result, the majority of Americans could afford expensive goods.
– With the first $1 million payment, Tuvalu was finally able to afford to join the United Nations.
– The richer principes, the second line of soldiers, could afford “lorica hamata” but they were sometimes seen wearing the cheaper “cuirasses”.
– If a company requires specific services and don’t want or cannot afford to hire a dedicated specialist within the company, they can outsource such services.
– But he could not afford to send any troops to Early in the Shenandoah Valley.
– This meant that if a person was charged with a crime in a “state” court, and he could not afford a lawyer, he would have to defend himself in court.
– They could afford some steel from Russia, and this was used for the engine and the floor, and to give the plastic strength.
– Those who could afford to leave Ivy City did; its population decreased by a third in the 1990s.Schwartzman, Paul.
– I think that we can afford the luxury to leave localised ie.
- Richer students can study in a place far from their hometown, but kids from poor neighbourhoods may be unable to afford college at all without a scholarship of some kind.
- By the twentieth century, the rules of bonsai were very well known in Japan and many people could afford to grow their own bonsai.
