AFFECTED in a Sentence

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1. The tax increases have affected us all.
2. I was affected by the story altogether.
3. The affected skin turns red and may blister.
4. The waiter appeared to be particularly affected.
5. The whole world would be affected by a nuclear war.

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 Meanings and Examples of AFFECTED
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affected
 a.  speaking or behaving in artificial way; emotionally stirred or moved; infected or attacked
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  Even the poor baby at Hester's bosom was affected by the same influence, for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  These words, which conveyed to Elinor a direct avowal of his love for her sister, affected her very much.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
7  She sat in an agony of impatience which affected every feature.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
9  The waiter appeared to be particularly affected.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
10  I dare say no words she could have uttered would have affected me so much, then, as her calling me her child.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
11  I did not fail to assure him that I would store these precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so, for, at the time, they affected me visibly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
12  For your very great politeness, I am sure, said Miss Murdstone; with an irony which no more affected my aunt, than it discomposed the cannon I had slept by at Chatham.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
13  I was affected by the story altogether.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
14  The climate affected his dye; it did very well in Russia, but it was no go here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15  Steerforth had made a speech about me, in the course of which I had been affected almost to tears.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
16  The rest of us have precious little influence over the global economy, though our lives are deeply affected by it.
17  Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.
18  It is too early to say whether insurance premiums will be affected.
19  If the eyes are affected, seek immediate medical attention.
20  The whole world would be affected by a nuclear war.
21  The ordeal has affected both her mental and physical health.
22  The machine directs a powerful beam at the affected part of the body.
23  In many research projects the researcher is simply concerned with the total number of cases being affected by some social problem situation.
24  The affected skin turns red and may blister.
25  It was an enormous task that affected every stratum of society.
26  The south of the country was worst affected by the drought.
27  All scheduled airline services will be affected by the strike.
28  The tax increases have affected us all.
29  Objections are frequently raised by affected personnel, and methods to input documents automatically are thus highly desirable.
30  The number of people affected and displaced has increased since the conflict, and at the moment there seems little prospect for them to return to villages.