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.
  • Yet that is not the end of the affair.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Ash and Agave seeks to class up the affair.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
  • One of the affairs that needs to be in order is awards.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Games 1 and 2 were tense, one-run affairs.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • That dour affair left a sour taste in the soccer world.
    — Cesar R. Torres, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • Bowyer, for his part, was unfazed by the affair.
    — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Needless to say, that was a messy affair.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 18 June 2026
  • Keep it in mind for an evening affair that calls for more dressy attire.
    — Marie Lodi, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022
  • This was a long, topsy-turvy affair, too.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The title fight was a brief and bloody affair that left the crowd buzzing.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Taylor once said of their affair.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The rest of the East is sorting its affairs.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The first half of Monday’s affair showed much of the same.
    — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Keep an eye out for their red carpet looks for the gilded affair.
    — Sam Sussman, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Making a protein from its gene is a two-stage affair.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • The first half of the second quarter was a back-and-forth affair.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Rumors of affairs plague all royals, even those no longer with us.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 May 2026
  • The first round of the draft was a remarkably on-the-rails affair.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • The war, and the state of affairs leading up to it, being the cause.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This winter has been an all-or-nothing affair.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But things didn’t wrap up neatly with that affair—and perhaps that’s the point.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The United States is in a sad state of affairs.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Take a keen interest in world affairs.
    — Glorious Hoshiko, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Police say Janet and Ron had an affair.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Monday night’s game was a sloppy affair.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
  • A lot of ink has been spilled about the Bragg/Pomerantz affair.
    — Jennifer Rodgers, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • As for decor at their affair, the couple wanted to keep it simple.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024

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