How to Use affair in a Sentence

affair

noun
  • How I choose to live is my affair, not yours.
  • After the war, the government focused on its own domestic affairs.
  • They accused the U.S. of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
  • By the time of that affair, in the late 1930s, Roth was in a dismal plight.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The first half of the second quarter was a back-and-forth affair.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • A lot of ink has been spilled about the Bragg/Pomerantz affair.
    — Jennifer Rodgers, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • If the forecast holds, the meet will be a cool, damp affair, better for the Ducks than Troy.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 May 2022
  • The stars were out for a black-tie affair in the Big Apple on Thursday night.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The first set was a back-and-forth affair until late when the Toreros ran off the final five points for the 25-19 win.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The clip has nothing to do with the current state of affairs with Clinton.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • Thereafter, both throw caution to the wind and engage in a messy affair for the ages.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The trip to and from Sacramento to work in person is a 14-hour affair.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The project, with playwright David Ives writing the book, was an on-again, off-again affair.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Well, there will soon be a new musical on the whole affair.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The man involved in the affair is a doctor and influencer.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Mark Kelly The course of world affairs may depend on the price of a box of cereal.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Throw in an affair with the new OB in town, and things start to heat up in her search for true happiness.
    — Liz Kadar, Country Living, 14 Feb. 2023
  • And the franchise’s poor handling of this entire affair could push Fox out the door, too.
    — Chris Branch, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The parade was a small affair—maybe a few hundred people and a dozen floats.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 30 June 2022
  • Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The first few years, the Gambler 500 remained a private affair.
    — oregonlive, 23 June 2022
  • The gathering proved to be a meta affair, more about process than substance.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Raquel Leviss is opening up about her months-long affair with Tom Sandoval for the first time.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For lunch and dinner, the restaurant is a more formal affair.
    — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
  • Trump has pleaded not guilty in the New York case and denies having an affair with Daniels.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 June 2023
  • If the affair partner is a colleague, then yes – changing jobs would be part of this process.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 May 2022
  • If the affair partner is a colleague, then yes — changing jobs would be part of this process.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2022
  • As for decor at their affair, the couple wanted to keep it simple.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • One scenario involved the AI discovering through an inbox that an employee was having an affair.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • The city’s immigrant affairs office is currently a lean two-person team, with Aragon and a language access coordinator.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025

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