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Example sentences for "affected"

Lexicographically close words:
affeccioun; affect; affectation; affectations; affecte; affectedly; affecting; affectingly; affection; affectional
  1. In order to keep the inflammation down as much as possible, the embryo surgeon continued the application of cold water to the affected part, which was somewhat efficacious.

  2. Kalbfleisch was so much affected by the sight that he burst into tears.

  3. There is a great deal of rheumatism and also throat disease, and they are affected by the weather.

  4. It is probable that the hospital poison has affected my system, and I find it worse than I calculated.

  5. This was an argument which I could neither gainsay nor resist, and coming as it did from the lips of my dying mother, I was much affected by it.

  6. This conduct was proper to make the pagans more obstinate, by teaching them that the Christians affected to speak of humanity and moderation from interest only, and not from a principle of religion as they pretended.

  7. The best recommendation that can be made in regard to pecans affected by this disease is to dig them up and burn them.

  8. A tree usually shows the disease over the whole top at once, though sometimes only a single branch is affected at first.

  9. The trees will make a much more rapid and satisfactory growth, and their trunks will be less affected by the hot sun, if the branches are allowed to develop lower down.

  10. We have ventured to give this brief sketch of the origin of these rival claims, in that most of the cathedral cities were affected by the fortunes or misfortunes of their favoured party.

  11. They were not affected by the views of the Church, and soon made themselves felt.

  12. The next event of importance not only affected Exeter, but threw into agitation the whole of the British Empire.

  13. Several of the bishops, smitten by the heathen darkness of the great majority of the Cabinet--affected by their utter ignorance of the practical working of Christianity--burst into tears.

  14. The olfactory organs of both are evidently affected by the pungent odour of their load.

  15. Before attempting to answer those objections, I think it necessary to observe that the existence of a positive fact can never be affected by any arguments which are grounded on the difficulty of accounting for it.

  16. I have tried the bull's-eye lens, but though the light was equally good as that from the globe, I found that the heat affected the head in a most unpleasant manner.

  17. He was slain when not more than nineteen; and his sister was so affected by his death that she resolved never to marry, and died when she was scarcely twenty.

  18. At the age of eight an illness so affected his eyes that he became nearly blind, and when he began to regain his sight his hearing became impaired.

  19. All the sects are more or less affected with this contagion of inquiry.

  20. In a moment of frenzied despair his mind, affected by hereditary insanity, gave way, and he freed himself from the earthly life.

  21. The chancellor affected to believe that it was but the address of a faction in the city, and not the unanimous vote of the citizens at large.

  22. As such action affected the privileges of the House, a committee was appointed to send a reply to the king in due course.

  23. The discovery led to stricter precautions being taken to prevent inhabitants of the city leaving the city to join the king at Oxford, as many ill-affected persons had already done.

  24. The petition relative to the militia was met by a counter-petition from "divers well-affected citizens of London and inhabitants in and about the same," the authors of which the Common Council wished to discover.

  25. When the mayor appeared to quell the tumult the crowd affected to disbelieve that his lordship was in earnest.

  26. Their presence in the city he affected to conceive would facilitate the collection of the money.

  27. The agriculture sector continued to be affected by the lack of suitable land for farming and the destruction of crops.

  28. Jordan's export market, which is heavily dependent on exports to Iraq, was also affected by the war but recovered quickly while contributing to the Iraq recovery effort.

  29. This work, which often lasted into the morning hours, affected his health adversely.

  30. Max Kalbeck, Brahm's biographer, says that this inscription refers to Robert Schumann, whose death had affected Brahms deeply and whom he had sometimes addressed as "Mynheer Domine.

  31. These evidences of population, prior to the latest geological changes which have affected the surface of the country, are indeed all found on old historic ground, according to the reckonings of written chronicles.

  32. There the language and race are still purely Celtic, and the ancient topographical nomenclature has been but slightly affected from their occupation by the Vikings and their Scandinavian successors.

  33. This important change, however, which the warrior missionary characteristically effected at the edge of the sword, there is good reason for believing only affected the Norwegian jarls.

  34. In nearly every state of society the burial of the dead is associated with the most sacred tenets of religion, and its wonted rites are among the very last to be affected by change.

  35. The parts chiefly affected in this way were those lowest down, which seem to have suffered from long exposure to some subtle corrosive.

  36. First sand was sprinkled, then squares and circles and diagrams were drawn upon the floor; then, while standing in the midst, he affected to read the lines of fate from a parchment covered with cabalistic characters.

  37. Conde with ineffable scorn; yet, spite of his affected contempt, the words have stung him, and he turns crimson.

  38. I was much affected by a little scene which I witnessed in connection with her labors.

  39. There was the usual junction of condolence on the death of the parent, and joy at the accession of the son; but both expressions were equally affected and hypocritical.

  40. An affecting reconciliation afterwards took place between Gloucester and the king; but we believe the reconciliation itself to have been more affected than the parties who were concerned in it.

  41. Everybody affected a strong desire to see him saved, but nobody had the resolution to take the responsibility of saving him.

  42. The king now endeavoured to effect a reconciliation between the rival parties, who affected to make it up, but started at once to their respective castles, for the purpose of looking up materials and men for the renewal of hostilities.

  43. A fellow of the name of Dangerfield affected to have discovered a new field of danger in an alleged design to set up a new form of government.

  44. She affected to hear voices and to see visions; but the former were rude shouts of I.

  45. The election fell upon Charles, and Francis affected to take the consequence as if it had been of no consequence at all, though it was clearly otherwise.

  46. Only that which can be affected is within the domain of generation.

  47. The single organism, indeed, could not be continuous without the continuity of some medium; this continuous medium is affected only by accident; but otherwise we would have to admit that all can be affected by all.

  48. What is affected is the things that mingle, and their being affected consists in ceasing to be what they were.

  49. But if these two objects are affected in one manner, and other two objects are affected in another manner, there might not always be need of a medium.

  50. Another error of the (Gnostics) is their teaching that intelligible beings are not beyond the reach of being affected by human beings.

  51. What is affected and divided must be a quantity or magnitude.

  52. If we felt only because the air had been affected before us, we would attribute the sensation of sight not to the visible object, but to the air located near us, as occurs with heat.

  53. Matter, however, remains what it is; it could not be affected when it ceases to contain heat or cold, since neither of these qualities is either characteristic or foreign.

  54. There is no doubt that the parts of one and the same animal will be less affected in experiencing sympathy because of the existence of a medium.

  55. According to Aristotle[59]), it is absolutely necessary that what can be affected must have powers and qualities opposed to the things that approach it, and affect it.

  56. Hardly, and are not men and children affected by this indifference?

  57. True, but he is no puling girl to be affected for long by a wound.

  58. Turning the affected ear down and then jumping, jerking the head, or pounding it gently, may dislodge it.

  59. Lay the head over, with the affected ear up, and pour in some warm oil or soap suds.

  60. Two rifles of different type may be equally accurate, but the accuracy of the one having the flatter trajectory will, naturally, be less affected by slight errors in sight setting.

  61. It is, therefore, evident that the distances will be materially affected not only by the size of the main body, but also by the nature of the cover afforded by the ground.

  62. The tone in which he uttered these words powerfully affected me, but in spite of its vividness even that impression was soon dissipated, and a thousand other cares erased it from my mind.

  63. The physical chill of the fog, the tawny sand that seemed to tinge the creeping mist, the mental chill of her mood affected her so that it suddenly seemed to her as if she could not take another step.

  64. That view of Jerusalem, and the knowledge of what the Holy Sites stand for, made him a better man and a better fighting man, and he had no doubt the first distant glimpse of the Holy City had similarly affected the bulk of the Army.

  65. The Kaiser brought a retinue clothed in white and red, and blue and gold, with richly caparisoned horses, and, like a true showman, he himself affected some articles of Arab dress.

  66. Bagdad had an important influence on the Eastern mind; Jerusalem affected Christian, Jew, and Moslem alike the world over.

  67. The spells of fine weather were getting shorter, and after each period of rain the sodden state of the country affected all movement.

  68. But these occasional amenities among the higher aristocracy but little affected the mass of the Welsh people, who stood aloof with lowering and uncompromising sullenness.

  69. The coincidence affected Percy and showed that if Glyndwr was superstitious so also was he; for, turning pale, he said: "I perceive my plough is now drawing to its last furrow.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; agonized; apocryphal; arrogant; artificial; assumed; bastard; bedizened; bogus; camp; canting; colored; concerned; counterfeit; declamatory; distorted; dummy; elaborate; elevated; embellished; embroidered; factitious; fake; false; falsified; feigned; feminine; fictitious; flamboyant; flaming; flashy; flaunting; flowery; forced; fulsome; garbled; garish; gaudy; genteel; glorified; grandiloquent; grandiose; histrionic; hypocritical; illegitimate; imbued; imitation; implicated; impressed; insincere; interested; intoxicated; involved; labored; labyrinthine; lofty; lordly; lurid; majestic; mannered; meretricious; mincing; mock; moved; obsessed; orotund; ostentatious; overcome; overdone; overwrought; pedantic; perverted; pharisaical; phony; pietistic; pinchbeck; pious; pompous; precious; pretended; pretentious; pseudo; quasi; queer; racked; rhetorical; sanctified; sanctimonious; sensational; sensitive; sententious; sham; shoddy; showy; sick; simper; simulated; smitten; sniveling; snobbish; sonorous; spurious; stagy; stilted; stricken; studied; supposititious; susceptible; tall; theatrical; tin; tinsel; torn; tortuous; tortured; touched; twisted; unauthentic; unctuous; unnatural; unreal; uppish; warped