How to use "affected" in a sentence

It affected him like an electric shock

She had never read anything like this before, and it affected her deeply.

Besides, the house hadn't shuddered just a minute ago; only the photos had been affected.

No woman had affected him so strongly since Nancy, his wife, who had died three years ago.

He grabbed her arm, swung her away from the burning house, the sight of which affected her as much as if it had been a hypnotist's slowly swinging pocket watch.

Her heartbeat became less like the pounding of a jackhammer, but it still did not settle into a normal rhythm; now it was affected by excitement rather than terror

This is because the conversation around the table contained details, which affected later developments.

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

I stared, surprised and greatly affected by the man's courage.

The howl affected my mind, and my mood changed

Her face was pale and thin, and her long suffering in the asylum had affected her mind, so that her expression was vague and her memory confused