AFFAIR in a Sentence

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293 example sentences for AFFAIR, such as:

1. The party was a grand affair.
2. The Slatterys were another affair.
3. The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
4. The debate was a pretty disappointing affair.
5. The whole sordid affair came out in the press.

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 Meanings and Examples of AFFAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
affair
 n.  a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
 n.  a vaguely specified concern
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Slatterys were another affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Her recent graduation from a skinny pickaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Gerald warmed to the flattery and said that the wedding had been a quiet affair, "not like you girls had," for Joe had only a few days' furlough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now a dollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  His black eyes danced as though amused by the whole affair, as though the earth-splitting sounds and the horrid glare were merely things to frighten children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  To Scarlet, Carreen was still "baby sister," far too young to have had a really serious love affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  But, to Scarlett, watching the bluecoats pour into the front hall, it was not a countrywide affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  In fact the morals of the affair weighed lightly upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  This affair was not going to be easy, she knew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  She seemed so much on the outside of this affair, this purely masculine affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  She would not be driven by fears, day and night, and life would be a placid, unhurried affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  How I get the lumber out is no affair of yours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
16  Something like sixty percent of all married men will have an affair at some point in their marriage.
17  It didn't occur to him that his wife was having an affair.
18  Their affair caused/created a scandal in the office.
19  The party was a grand affair.
20  The whole sordid affair came out in the press.
21  This affair did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars.
22  The whole affair is an outrage and the authorities have done nothing to prevent it.
23  The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
24  The whole affair does not reflect well on the government.
25  I have a lot to say in relation to that affair.
26  In a strange way, his affair caused our relationship to strengthen.
27  The debate was a pretty disappointing affair.
28  It appears that much of the cuisine is an intuitive affair, based on the state, and available ingredients.
29  It was a very modest affair, a gathering of Caribbean musicians in an area of London, where many West Indian immigrants had settled in the 1950s.
30  While conditions are in such a state of flux, I do not wish to commit myself too deeply in this affair.