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Example sentences for "after five"

  • And I thought of the laughter and gallant spirit of the young men, after five months of the greatest battles in the history of the world.

  • After five-and-twenty years you can discover nothing.

  • It is impossible--after five-and-twenty years.

  • After five-and-twenty years he is likely to remain so.

  • Emerson attributes a great importance to the scholarship, the rhetoric, the eloquence, of Edward Everett, who returned to Boston in 1820, after five years of study in Europe.

  • After five or ten minutes, my ideas being now quite clear, I was just about to substitute the pen for the putter when Celia came in.

  • After five minutes of this he would rest again, lying motionless except for a circular movement of the ears.

  • It's after five," said Dan, "but I thought you fellows might as well sleep awhile longer.

  • After five minutes he began to think that he had made a mistake.

  • Finally, after five years, the junta condemned the scheme as vain and impossible.

  • After five years of follies and sufferings since I had left Geneva, I began to earn an honest living.

  • After five years' absence your cordiality is overwhelming," he said.

  • A word from me, after five years' absence?

  • On the second or third day after vaccination a red papule appears which soon grows larger, and, after five or six days, it becomes filled with a watery fluid.

  • After five years of age the normal tonsils should begin to shrink, and at about the beginning of adolescence they should be no larger than a small lima bean, hidden almost completely out of sight behind the pillars of the throat.

  • After five years' triumphant progress in society she was accustomed to the petrifying effect of her sudden presence on a beauty-worshipping sex.

  • After five minutes' struggle he succeeded in fastening this with the aid of a buttonhook, and suddenly the thing he had feared was upon him.

  • Your feelings is still the same--after five years?

  • Do you ever wonder to yourself what sort of a man he may be after five years, Miss Sylvia?

  • The dreadful chill went through her again like a sword thrusting at her heart, and with it went old Jeffcott's warning words: "Do you ever ask yourself what sort of man he may be after five years?

  • I returned home with my family to my house at Sayes Court, after five months' residence in London; hardly the least appearance of any spring.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after ages; after bathing; after bowing; after his; after much; after other; after period; after preaching; after referring; after service; after seven; after sitting; after some; after supper; after thee; after their; after touching; after various; after waiting; afternoon service; afterward found; afterwards found; empty stomach; strong impulse; tablespoonful flour; take account