afford
Example Sentences
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Opponents can afford to minimise how much they run through a season by spending large parts of the game in their pragmatic low blocks.
From BBC
The idea that women should have the number of children they want, that they can afford and look after, has been widely embraced, Siraha said.
From Salon
Mental health workers have set up a food pantry after reporting a rise in patients struggling to afford to eat but face delays in being referred to food banks.
From BBC
My wife and I bought it at an opportune moment many years ago and can’t afford to move—transaction costs and mortgage rates being what they are.
“We have a $100,000 tractor that hasn’t moved in three or four months because we don’t know if we can afford to fix it,” Orth said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
