Sample Sentences foraffinity (editor-reviewed)
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She thinks deeply and has an affinity for others with the same kind of mind.affinity = a natural attraction or sympathy
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Tell them there's a natural affinity between the West and the Orient. (source)affinity = a natural attraction or feeling of being connected
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Litvinoff had always felt a certain affinity with this friend, and he was anxious to know what he'd been doing the last few years. (source)affinity = natural attraction or feeling of kinship
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an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the... (source)affinity = a natural feeling of kinship
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In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. (source)affinity = attraction
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The old man's backwoods savvy, his affinity for the wilderness, left a deep impression on the boy.† (source)
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Admittedly, when the Count had first encountered jazz, he hadn't much of an affinity for it.† (source)
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Writing these stories, which eventually appeared joined together in the book called The Golden Apples, was an experience in a writer's own discovery of affinities.† (source)
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It is not the fate of my class to marry for affinity.† (source)
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But the public gaze of the stairway mirror as she hurried toward it revealed a woman on her way to a funeral, an austere, joyless woman moreover, whose black carapace had affinities with some form of matchbox-dwelling insect.† (source)
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Apollo, you have an affinity with Oracles.† (source)
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Thus Cottard, who had affinities with it, drew Rambert's attention to the absence of the dogs that in normal times would have been seen sprawling in the shadow of the doorways, panting, trying to find a nonexistent patch of coolness.† (source)
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He had a curious affinity for eating food directly out of cans, cold.† (source)
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There are certain affinities between the persons we quit and those we meet afterwards.† (source)
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I have never seen such affinity between two beings.† (source)
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When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.† (source)
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