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

It is a hard thing, I know, for you to leave the girl you love, and it’s cruel to neglect a flourishing business which is affording you a handsome income.

From The Ferryman of Brill and other stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Meantime the village is affording me further opportunities of studying Mother Hubbard's theories of human nature and discovering the germ of goodness in things evil.

From Windyridge by Riley, W.

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 Poe, Edgar Allan

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 Pearson, Francis B.