How to Use affordance in a Sentence

affordance

noun
  • Sometimes, the affordance is love.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The affordances of technology are tried out and renegotiated often.
    — Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • LaRoche believes waiting for a big to come set a screen wastes time and adds traffic, eliminating affordances unnecessarily.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Technological affordances allow new media users to interact with, shape, or produce content themselves.
    — Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Forcing athletes to find new affordances within various constraints makes perception-action coupling more efficient.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • However, due to the affordances of social media, audience members now have some control over content production and dissemination.
    — Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • These texts can include a wide range of hybrid generic structures from interactive websites, wikis, and blogs to interactive fiction and games, which would not have been possible to design before the appearance of hypertext affordances.
    — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Each organizational choice created affordances and constraints that shaped subsequent innovations.
    — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Clearly, trajectories are also influenced if not monitored by the structural affordances provided by the designers who have functionally and hierarchically classified pieces of information.
    — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • This shifted my focus from visual perfection to cognitive predictability—prioritizing clarity, affordance and immediate feedback over novelty.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Scholars must trace and analyze whether and how these new iterations heighten inherent tensions of news as narrative, such as reason versus emotion and objectivity versus subjectivity, and how journalists create novel conventions and routines around technological affordances.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026

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