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Example sentences for "after all"

  • After all, I knew SHE knew she stole my gamboge.

  • After all, provender was the main thing, and five shillings stood for a complete equipment against the most unexpected turns of luck.

  • When I saw daylight between the long legs I was sure it was a man, after all.

  • I rather wonder," said Father Brown, "that there are so few people about the beach, when this big fight is coming on after all.

  • Maybe I haven't told everything about her, after all.

  • After all, land and its products are the basis of everything; the city couldn't exist a day unless we feed and clothe it.

  • After all Mrs. Pryor didn't need to sit back on her dignity and look so abused.

  • Nothing that can't be got over, perhaps, after all?

  • Yet detection, after all, would be no such dreadful thing.

  • But, after all, why should her going off with him to Anglebury for a few hours do her any harm?

  • But I much question if I was right, after all.

  • I shall be turning my wheel when I die," she used to say, and, after all, this is the proper ending for a literary worker.

  • But, after all, is not passion a fatal and irresistible thing?

  • In her heart she kept an altar for this martyr, and never thought of wondering whether, after all, this idol and hero were not a mere puppet.

  • After all, it was no great matter to have one's hand kissed.

  • After all, he had been absent but a few months, and was not changed.

  • After all there is as much chance for me here as there was there--that is, I might find it profitable some day.

  • So there were only ten, after all, which made a cozy, comfortable number.

  • Once she went to her room and studied the cookbook during an entire evening, finally writing out a menu for the week, which left her harassed with a feeling that, after all, she had accomplished no good that was worth the name.

  • This gentleman speaks of footsteps in the grass; but, after all, it is easy to be mistaken on such a point.

  • After all, a bicycle is not an easy thing to conceal or to destroy.

  • After all, it is a question of money with these fellows, and I have the British Treasury behind me.

  • After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.

  • After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines.

  • He seemed so perplexed that I thought perhaps he hadn't enough money, after all.

  • But, after all, we felt, winged things who would live like that must be rather degraded creatures.

  • To be sure, behind the thought lurks the afterthought: suppose, after all, the World is right and we are less than men?

  • A fine book, after all, was an investment, and if there was any way of enhancing its rarity, and therefore its value, I was quite willing to enjoy such an advantage.

  • He would not go out to meet her, after all.

  • After all," he said, "it is not altogether an erotolepsy that is the matter with me, as at that first time.

  • After all, what did it matter since it was dark, said Jude to himself.

  • The rottenness of these historical documents reminded him that he was not, after all, hastening on to begin the morning practically as he had intended.

  • The singularity aforesaid lay, after all, less in the conveyance itself than in Jude's manner of conducting it along its route.

  • The record of the plow was insignificant, like the feeble scratches on stone left by prehistoric races, so indeterminate that they may, after all, be only the markings of glaciers, and not a record of human strivings.

  • Now, Alexandra could in a measure realize that Marie was, after all, Marie; not merely a "married woman.

  • She had, after all, thought he might come.

  • He felt as if a clear light broke upon his mind, and with it a conviction that good was, after all, stronger than evil, and that good was possible to men.

  • He had expected to die, and, after all, what might Sheeta have done for him other than to maul a couple of his enemies before a rifle in the hands of one of the whites should have dispatched him!

  • Could it be that the vessel was deserted, and that, after all, he was doomed to be overtaken by the terrible fate that he had been flying from through all these hideous days and nights?

  • It was not, after all, strange that the white man's ways should have been so much more nearly related to those of the beasts than were the savage blacks.

  • The elder world was, after all, their natural field.

  • But it 's better, after all, this way," she said.

  • For a moment he did not know whether it was not to be wished that Clifford, after all, might have gone to Boston.

  • And as her sister made no answer she added, "After all he has done for you!

  • There was, after all, something substantial in his laughter.

  • After all, what is there for us to fear in this house?

  • You did not vote for the death of the king, after all.

  • After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago.

  • After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of to-day are still in the rudimentary stage.

  • And, after all, it was a beautiful and curious world.

  • So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bathing; after days; after debate; after dinner; after drinking; after exchanging; after him; after long; after looking; after other; after partaking; after reading; after referring; after several; after speaking; after they had been; after thinking; after times; after two; after various; after washing; after what has happened; centripetal force; just north; queer thing; seeing this