7 sentences with 'affair'
Example sentences and phrases with the word affair and other words derived from it.
• « The whole affair was paid for by Cosimo out of his personal fortune - he even paid the travel expenses of visiting dignitaries from as far afield as India and Ethiopia. »
• « Henry VIII decided that he needed a new wife and another chance at a male heir, so he began an affair with Anne Boleyn, a young noblewoman at his court. »
• « While the mainstream Enlightenment was definitely an elite affair conducted in public, there were other elements to it. »
• « The Dreyfus affair, in which a French Jewish army officer was falsely accused of treason, became a kind of prediction of civil war thanks to the enormous amount of press on both sides of the scandal. »
• « In the end, the "Dreyfus affair" culminated in the exoneration and release of Dreyfus, but not before anti-Semitism had risen to one of the defining characteristics of right-wing illiberal and authoritarian politics in France. »
• « Most Americans believed that the war was a European affair that should not involve American troops. »