Your papa's a young man, with no heart trouble and lots of money; hecan afford to have a card-playing son what has to have second breakfast alone every morning!
I tell you, Miss Renie, now since I can afford it, I just don't seem to know how to do the things I got the feeling inside of me for.
When my daughter marries a Albert Hamburger, then maybe too we can afford to take a trip to Europe.
You hear, Simon: Moe Bergenthal, who sells shirtwaists for you right this minute, can afford to send his daughter to Europe.
Is it because you sell for the house such big bills I can afford to run me all over Europe!
As soon as I can afford it, I shall get my freedom, but everything costs, you know, even justice.
I feel independent, and I shall not be anxious about the time I give, because I shall know that I can afford it.
But if he can let bygones be bygones, I guess you can afford to!
That's the reason I can afford to be frank, in coming back to my friends.
If I choose to pass over an injury, I fear 'tis not from a Christian and forgiving spirit: 'tis because I can afford to remit the debt, and disdain to ask a settlement of it.
I can afford to wait, madam," and she flung out of the room, just as the chaplain returned.
And Mr. Woods, being wealthy, can afford to gratify the virtues you commend so highly and, with a fidelity that is most edifying, return again to his old love.
Billy doesn't pretend to be a clever man, you see, and so he can afford to practice some of the brute virtues, such as constancy and fidelity.
We can affordto make the stock of the combination half a dozen times what it naturally would be and pay dividends on it, because there will be nobody to dispute the prices we shall fix.
I do not believe that there is any group of men of any kind to whom we can afford to give that kind of trusteeship.
We can afford to buy it at such a figure because we are shutting out competition.
He can afford to please himself; he does not stoop if he marries beneath his own rank; for he is able to elevate any wife to his.
Nothing in the world makes him so angry as when anybody sends for him that can afford a doctor, for he don't take pay.
Because our strengths are so great, we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with candor and to approach them with hope.
The material resources which wecan afford to use for the assistance of other peoples are limited.
Well, I see no reason why a collier should not drink champagne if he can afford it as well as a Duke.
Looking to Roman opinion, he probably did what honour dictated; and those who prefer honour to life are not so numerous that we can afford to speak of them with scorn.
We can afford to go to Europe even if we don't let it.
If--if we can afford to pay what you ask for it," hesitated Anne.
They're sure to want more for it than we can afford.
I'll send her twenty-five this month, and tell her I'll send the rest as soon as I can afford it.
I don't know as we can afford it this month, Mac," she said, pouring the chocolate.
We've looked Polk Street over, and this is the only thing we can afford.
In my own case, their bills mean business; and that being so, I can afford to give more than a professional discounter who simply looks at the signatures.
He is engaged on a Government newspaper; he is well looked on by those in authority; he can afford to mix with Liberals, for he holds sound opinions; and soon or later he will succeed.
When the pair is so poor that it can afford only a single room, the strain is intolerable: violent quarrelling is the result.
A young man says: "If I choose to risk a sum of money which I can afford to lose over a bet with some one else who can afford to do the same, what has talk about equivalent got to do with it?
It is here the young man has a great advantage; he is at an age when he can afford risks; let him use it before his years are mortgaged by other demands.
But those clattery quick-lunch places which are all he has time for, or can afford, don't have appetizing cooking or surroundings, and all my forethought and planning over our good home meals may be counteracted by his miserable lunch.
Intelligent employees do much better work than illiterate ones, and since wecan afford to pay them better wages, they are much more contented.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can afford" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
