Sentence examples for affair something from inspiring English sources

For many of us, war is becoming a remote affair, something that happens on a computer screen.

That's particularly true after a decade when watching movies became an increasingly solitary affair, something between you and your laptop.

Adolescence is boring, smelly and above all a protracted affair, something like a long-haul flight.

The taxi ride back to my flat was a solemn affair, something like the pitch meeting for Red or Black?

If the French take their food seriously, they also see dieting as a serious affair, something that could be hazardous to your health without appropriate supervision.

The day would be a trying, exhilarating, perplexing and sometimes joyous affair, something, in fact, like what the intense reading of Shakespeare can be.

He is also believed by historians to have had a number of homosexual love affairs – something then regarded as unnatural.

There's obviously the dictionary definition: an expression of discontent about a person or state of affairs, something like that.

For years, China maintained a low profile in foreign affairs, something Deng Xiaoping had ordained in his admonition to taoguang yanghui — "bide your time, and hide your strength".

These stories have included young widowhood (Private Benjamin), working mothers (Baby Boom), fiftysomething love affairs (Something's Gotta Give), and divorce (It's Complicated).

"The Bush doctrine openly rejects nonintervention in other nations' affairs, something that runs counter to the ideal of sovereignty that is so precious in Latin America," said Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York University.