Example collocations logo

Afford in sentence

1637 examples of Afford in a sentence

You can then click on the screen and be directed to the donation page of The Bail Project, a fund that raises money for people who cannot afford bail.
Many people will move away to less noisy areas, but obviously not everybody can afford that.
We cannot afford to take that chance.
Imagine if you could afford the diagnosis but not the cure.
It seemed kind of transgressive to talk about medicine and health care in the same breath, and yet it became liberating, because we found not only data but also good and honest people out there in the system who want to help folks get the care they need at a price they can afford.
How do we go and do this, and how do we get it down so that it's a cost point that we could afford?
Now, most school districts can't really afford organic food, but we, as a nation, have to start thinking about consuming, growing and feeding our children food that's not chock-full of chemicals.
In our school district, the way we afford this is our school district allocates .03
It's the kids who have parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts that can't even afford to pay for school lunch that gets this food.
That one cigar was the only luxury he could afford for himself.
Back in the '70s, they would write pamphlets to raise awareness on the dictatorship, and because they couldn't afford to make copies, they would reproduce the same pamphlet 500 times each and distribute them.
And a Palestinian family can't afford the 350 dollars.
The sharing is caring business model says two families share one unit, three families share one unit, and they split the cost, so they can afford paying for it.
Would that it were not so, but we can no longer afford to close our eyes, block our ears, and say la-la-la.
From the Watergate hearings on national news, to the teacher who had to rent a projector when her school couldn’t afford one, Harvey saw a desperate need for political reform.
"Armstrong explained the brutal reality of their situation: they paid 1,500 shillings in rent, about 20 bucks a month, a relatively high price for a Kenyan shantytown, and they could not afford to be late with the money.
When he couldn't afford canvases, he fashioned them out of discarded wood he found on the street.
At a certain height, trees can no longer afford the lost water that evaporates during photosynthesis.
You could never afford to do this in a company.
You could never afford to have a standby crew of people 24 hours a day and do what we're doing at Wikipedia.
So how can you make solar cells more accessible and for everyone, and not only for the people that can afford a sustainable lifestyle?
This practice allowed the company to afford even grander voyages, increasing profits for both themselves and their savvy investors.
My mum wanted to, couldn’t afford it.
We can't afford to pull back from the world.
They can afford to watch their "Robocop" and whatever.
That room represented the sacrifices of generations gone by who, by poverty or by policy, couldn't afford a curio of collectibles let alone a middle class house to put them in.
And by being a zero-dollar laptop, we can go to countries that can't afford it at all.
Governments in island and coastal nations may want to protect their waters, but often these nations have very high debt and can't afford to prioritize conservation.
We're doing it because we realize that something is structurally wrong in America, when one in two Americans can't afford one 400-dollar emergency.
What I didn't see come my way was the women and children whom we served time and shared space with, women who had been imprisoned for crimes of the system, the corruption that requires a fall guy, a scapegoat, so that the person who is responsible could go free, a broken system that routinely vilifies the vulnerable, the poorest amongst us, people who cannot afford to pay bail or bribes.
BackNext