"afford" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lord Penryn's house rose in a spacious square of ground behind a hawthorn hedge, shrouded in trees, and, while not easily accessible from the street, clearly afforded refuge to anyone who succeeded in penetrating the hedge.
- "There is a ribbon of green space that runs through urban and suburban areas that is actually affording refuge to species that might not otherwise be there," Mr. Main said.
- "The malghaste have for too long existed on our border, affording refuge to those who escape from us."
- Some administrative cabins constructed in the early 1920s afford refuge for trail crews and wilderness rangers.
- He also joined societies for the suppression of climbing chimney-sweepers, for diffusing knowledge about capital punishments, for affording refuge to the destitute, and for repressing cruelty to animals, being conscientiously opposed to field sports.
- Some small distance up the valley Aillas noticed a dilapidated hut which might even now afford refuge to herders and wanderers of the hills.
- Granted that Castenago has afforded refuge to assassins, why need he ever admit it?
- The steep coastal topography afforded refuge to religious minorities, including Druze and Christians, whose persecutors were reluctant to follow them into the mountains.
- He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden (1682-1718) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia (1672-1725) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.
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