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Example sentences for "after their"

  • It is difficult to love a woman and do any good work, and the only way to escape being reduced to inaction is to marry.

  • The social condition of Russia is like a tideless sea, whose sullen quiescence is broken from time to time by terrific storms which spend themselves in unavailing fury.

  • Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

  • And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

  • And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

  • After their defeat, they still persevered in the defence of Durazzo; and a Venetian commander supplied the place of George Palæologus, who had been imprudently called away from his station.

  • After their defeat, they still persevered in the defence of Durazzo; and a Venetian commander supplied the place of George Palaeologus, who had been imprudently called away from his station.

  • Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

  • These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

  • Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

  • God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind.

  • The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • In Darfur, "after their circumcision, the boys roamed around the adjacent villages and stole all the poultry" (127.

  • On the coast of Guinea, after their circumcision, "boys are allowed to exact presents from every one and to commit all sorts of excesses" (127.

  • After their cups of willow leaves at the cafe they went up into that nook of the plantation where the simple shaft of church-warden's Gothic commemorates the assassination on the spot where it befell.

  • Edward Poynings made part with Burchier and Elizabeth, to have Ostenhanger in Kent, after their death, and entered into it, they living.

  • After their conversion to Mohammedanism, they swept with irresistible force through the East and conquered nearly all Asia Minor.

  • There new emperors, after their consecration in Sancta Sophia, were greeted by their subjects; there civic festivals were held; and there the last Roman triumphs were celebrated.

  • After their occupation of Egypt, they began to overrun North Africa, which Justinian, little more than a century earlier, had reconquered from the Vandals.

  • On the other hand, the inhabitants of Gaul came to call their country France and themselves Français after their conquerors, the Germanic Franks.

  • That river goeth through the land of Pigmies, where that the folk be of little stature, that be but three span long, and they be right fair and gentle, after their quantities, both the men and the women.

  • And they be of good colour and of fair shape, after their greatness.

  • After their defeat at Pentland, he, no doubt, had his share of the violence and cruelty that then reigned, till anno 1668, he was removed to a better world.

  • It was at this time, that my boat was on the sounding duty, which they must have seen; for they proceeded directly for her, after their disappointment at the Discovery.

  • In times of scarcity, after their bread-fruit and yams are consumed, they have recourse to various roots, which grow without cultivation upon the mountains.

  • Cranstoun, with whom Mary had been in constant correspondence, waited upon the ladies the morning after their arrival, and came daily during their visit.

  • After their departure, I walked like a frantic distracted person.

  • But if the men who uttered holy words were themselves holy, He would not have said, "Do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

  • In Greece these combats were absolutely unknown, and were only introduced into some cities, after their subjection to the Roman people.

  • After their deaths, a democracy or popular government was established in that city, and subsisted above sixty years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "after their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after ages; after dark; after days; after dinner; after drinking; after four; after making; after much; after passing; after preaching; after sitting; after supper; after thee; after them; after they had been; after touching; after twenty; after two; after various; after what; after years; afternoon teas; afterward found; horse manure; minority report; should begin