Sample Sentences for
affable
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    When he approached and introduced himself, they were most affable.  (source)
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    To Vladimir and Estragon, affably.  (source)
    affably = in a good natured and sociable manner
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    Gone was the affable smile, the playful look in his eyes.†  (source)
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    The affable man gradually turned into a grouchy, taciturn recluse.†  (source)
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    Joe's affability contrasted with the discomfiture of the men on the bench.†  (source)
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    'Come on, now, Harry, you'll be late for your next lesson,' said Slughorn affably, snapping the gold clasps shut on his dragonskin briefcase.†  (source)
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    'Can't I be supposed to feel—I as brought him up porochially—when I see him a-setting here among ladies and gentlemen of the very affablest description!†  (source)
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    With a rising sense of panic, I watched the affable helper putting on his jacket.†  (source)
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    My wife was adept in achieving such small advantages, first impressing the impressionable with her chic and my celebrity and, superiority once firmly established, changing quickly to a pose of almost flirtatious affability.†  (source)
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    Mr. Hardman, who was smoking a cigar, welcomed them affably.†  (source)
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    Comparisons have also been drawn between McCandless and Carl McCunn, an affable absentminded Texan who moved to Fairbanks during the 1970s oil boom and found lucrative employment on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction project.†  (source)
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    It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability!†  (source)
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    He calls me back again and affably gives me to understand that for once he is pleased to put mercy before justice.†  (source)
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