afford
verb (used with object)
to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect.
is affording
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present progressiveof afford (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Essentially this decision is affording this project a level of review that’s commensurate with the value of the resources at stake.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022
Indirectly, the school is affording the people of the community many profitable topics of conversation, and these readily supplant the futile and less profitable topics.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
The Duc De L'Omelette is terror-stricken; for, through the lurid vista which a single uncurtained window is affording, lo! gleams the most ghastly of all fires!
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
And Mr. Packard is affording me every facility for so doing, by his continuing strenuously to insist upon it, that I am, now, just as insane as when he incarcerated me in Jacksonville Insane Asylum.
From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
Each man has got his little parcel of bread or biscuit and meat, tied up firmly in flax, and fastened to his belt; but besides this, the bush is affording us other kinds of tucker.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
