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Example sentences for "afterward"

Lexicographically close words:
afterpart; afterpiece; aftertaste; afterthought; aftertimes; afterwarde; afterwardes; afterwards; afterwhile; afther
  1. Each man scanned him with a peculiarly keen personal interest, and afterward spoke of him with unquestioning devotion and confidence, narrating anecdotes which were mainly untrue.

  2. Of course, afterward I got kind of used to it.

  3. Afterward the men would not allow this moody contemplation of the fire to be interrupted.

  4. And not far from the said three fortresses the lady had such a castle built upon a mountain as might never be taken, the which castle was called Canossa, and there the countess afterward founded and endowed a noble convent of nuns.

  5. Soon afterward the young captain ran his craft in at a pier, on which stood a waiting automobile.

  6. Soon afterward he called Hank, who had had three or four hours’ sleep, to the wheel.

  7. As if to illustrate the fact, he himself some time afterward set forth with the "mountain men" to march against the royalists under Ferguson, and was among the victors in the battle of King's Mountain.

  8. The young Indian girl came to be known afterward at MacLeod's Station as Choo-qualee-qualoo, the Cherokee word which imitates the note of the bird.

  9. Hamish learned afterward that he had lost his scalp rather through this quality of quiet indulgence, so open to treachery, than to inability to keep it.

  10. This all happened before Mukoki met the pretty Indian girl who became his wife, and was afterward killed by the wolves, and he missed the dog as he would have missed a human brother.

  11. Kiss the baby when nine days old, and the first gentleman you kiss afterward will be your future husband.

  12. The first one you shake hands with afterward is your true love.

  13. Afterward came the interviewing, the hurried writing of copy, the telegraphing from a secret place in Staten Island out of the reach of news thieves; but all that is the mere recital of how we carried home our game.

  14. She was educated at Edinburgh, and afterward removed to London with her mother and sister.

  15. It afterward appeared that the gifted Gashwiler was responsible for the appointment of twenty clerks, and that the letter of poor Dobbs, in which he dared to refer to the now powerless Gashwiler, had sealed his fate.

  16. And he had told Rosamond afterward that there was "something grand in Desire Ledwith; only grand things almost always have to grow with struggles.

  17. As this substance is very difficult to be washed out of napkins, the first ones used should be old and afterward be burned.

  18. In other cases there may be a discharge of blood at the first period, and none afterward for several months; in other words, menstruation may be established suddenly, intermittently, or gradually.

  19. Women who suffer m severe vaginal catarrh are frequently sterile, the spermatozoa being found dead in the vagina some hours after copulation, although an examination a shorter time afterward revealed them still alive.

  20. Passion is presented to the young wife in so hideous a guise that it will take the utmost consideration of her husband afterward to enable her to completely overcome her repugnance.

  21. They are afterward spoken of by Herodotus, and subsequently by Procopius, from the latter of which we have quoted.

  22. He lived some time afterward in comparative neglect and obscurity, and mankind considered the question of the marriage of Elizabeth as now, at last, settled forever.

  23. It was afterward proved, or supposed to be proved, that this shot was the accidental discharge of a gun, without any evil intention whatever.

  24. Both these decrees of annulment had afterward been revoked, and the right of the princesses to succeed had been restored, or attempted to be restored, by the will.

  25. It has accordingly been the general belief of mankind since that time, that the unprincipled courtier destroyed his wife in the vain hope of becoming afterward the husband of the queen.

  26. Drake himself afterward recovered the shore with his own ship alone, and moved northward.

  27. One or two years afterward Elizabeth was attacked with the small-pox, and for a time was dangerously sick, in fact, for some days her life was despaired of, and the country was thrown into a great state of confusion and dismay.

  28. The oldest is known in history by his title of the Earl of Hertford at first, and afterward by that of Duke of Somerset.

  29. Immediately after this the young queen retired to her palace in Greenwich, and in two or three months afterward little Elizabeth was born.

  30. Aylmer afterward became a distinguished man, was made Bishop of London, and held many high offices of state under Queen Elizabeth, when she came to reign.

  31. In a word, he did exactly what pirates are hung for doing, and execrated afterward by all mankind.

  32. They afterward told her that Sir Thomas had come to take her away from the Tower, but that it was not known where she was to go.

  33. Henry was himself, at this time, very fond of Anne Boleyn, though his feelings afterward were entirely changed.

  34. Within one week afterward four young lightweights in the village proclaimed themselves abolitionists!

  35. He told me afterward that some day I would get shot for giving people that kind of cigars to smoke.

  36. You are too proud to rectify your mistake there, with people looking, but afterward you keep on wishing and wishing you HAD done it.

  37. To the audience I seemed more interested in my fingernails than I was in my subject; one or two persons asked me afterward what was the matter with my hands.

  38. Yet when he died nobody there or elsewhere took any notice of it; and for sixty years afterward no townsman remembered to say anything about him or about his life in Stratford.

  39. But afterward when it resulted in PAIN to HIM, he was sorry.

  40. So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door.

  41. Afterward Pattmore frequently came to Brooklyn alone, and he always spent much of his time in her society.

  42. Once afterward I met her on Broadway, on her way to her carriage.

  43. Pattmore then returned to Greenville, and soon afterward his wife died.

  44. Mrs. Thayer was in her room about eleven o'clock; soon afterward Miss Seaton went to the door and knocked.

  45. A dinner in the Faubourg and the Opera afterward calls for the very best in your wardrobe.

  46. Let's go find them and afterward we can get Uncle's and mine and have a snug foursome of a chat.

  47. That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural (animal, sensuous); and afterward that which is spiritual.

  48. We learn to walk by a conscious effort to take each step; afterward we take each step automatically, and think only whither we wish to go.

  49. But hydra reproduces mostly by budding; new individuals growing out of the side of the old one, like branches from the trunk of a tree, but afterward breaking free and leading an independent life.

  50. The stimuli which have called forth the reflex action may result afterward in consciousness; but until brain and muscle have reached a higher grade, this could be of but slight benefit to the animal.

  51. That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

  52. Afterward we frame each letter or note automatically, and think only of the idea and its expression.

  53. We learned the fact of gravitation the first time that we fell down in learning to walk, long afterward we learned that its law guided earth and moon.

  54. I thought it was a poker; but the papers said afterward it was a candlestick, and I guess it was.

  55. What Scanlon said he could never afterward remember.

  56. As I have worked it out, she sat reading, just as she said; and she heard a greater part of what was talked of in the sitting-room between Burton and his daughter, and afterward the son.

  57. He told it to us, and afterward to the warden and a half dozen of the prison people.

  58. While she was doing this, I think young Burton must have gone up-stairs, where he was afterward seen by the maid.

  59. To them he told the story which he afterward repeated to the coroner's physician: that his father had met his death in the space which had elapsed between his taking his sister to her room and his return to the sitting-room.

  60. Afterward it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was innocent.

  61. In her dread of the police, as afterward shown, he fancied he recalled something more than the shrinking of a sensitive nature.

  62. Then Chet Dorrance, whom Betty afterward found to be Ted's brother, was feeding the goldfishes in the lovely pool from a box of something held by Kathryn Allen.

  63. I thought afterward that I had omitted it, though I went all over it so carefully.

  64. The next day the news of the disappearance of Jeringham was all over the town; afterward the body was discovered down the river, and mistaken for that of Mr. Larcher.

  65. You can proceed with your toilet, and afterward we will read novels and newspapers, as you suggest.

  66. Hilliston afterward met her in London, where she died in giving birth to Jenny.

  67. Dinner was a mere farce with the young man, for he could neither eat nor drink, and afterward he dawdled about the smoke room, putting off the reading of the papers as long as he could.

  68. Tait said nothing at the moment, and shortly afterward they parted, Larcher to seek his guardian in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Tait to return to his chambers.

  69. I did so, and shortly afterward I went on a visit to a sister of mine in America.

  70. She was as bad as I afterward became, and that is saying a great deal, as you will see by reading on.

  71. She, unable to maintain the house in its original splendor, got quit of it altogether in this way, and shortly afterward took up her quarters at Eastbourne, leaving the house of her ancestors in the possession of a stranger.

  72. This Claude promised to do, and, as his mother was worn out by the long conversation, he shortly afterward took his leave.

  73. As it afterward appeared he had good reason to be.

  74. These heated speeches were afterward remembered and commented upon.

  75. Then we'll go to the club, and afterward to the tailor's.

  76. Francis, afterward Sir Francis Austen, Senior Admiral of the Fleet, and K.

  77. So she supposed she must have sat down upon the sofa and afterward fallen.

  78. I don't know what Berrisford had written, but he got very red while the instructor was speaking, and crumpled the card into a little lump which he afterward slipped into his pocket.

  79. Afterward we practised place kicks, drop kicks and punts; candidates for tackle were lined up against one another and tried breaking through; quarter-backs and centre-rushes practised passing and snapping back the ball.

  80. I learned afterward that this was precisely what Fleetwood and Duggie counted on.

  81. I spoke to him about it afterward and asked him how he dared to do such things.

  82. Afterward we went to Newspaper Row and waited for hours in a bare, rather dirty little room while Fleetwood, standing at a high desk under an electric light in the corner, wrote his review.

  83. Of course I can't remember all he said, but it sounded so important that afterward I scribbled as much of it as I could in a notebook.

  84. Some thirty young women were taken captive, and afterward sold, the children crying for their murdered parents.

  85. Having seen me bow the knee in prayer, one of them asked me afterward if I had been praying.

  86. Such scenes, I afterward found, were almost of daily occurrence.

  87. He could afterward treat Harry as he pleased.

  88. Philip partook as usual, and waited afterward in the confident expectation that his father would open the small trunk.

  89. Soon afterward the two were sitting at a small table in Congreve's bedroom at the hotel, playing poker.

  90. He selected two, of one hundred dollars each, and replaced the others in the envelope, and afterward in the trunk.

  91. Uncle Obed, who thought it time to "put in his oar," as he afterward expressed it.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afterward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    after; afterwards; anon; behind; future; hopefully; later; manana; next; probably; soon; subsequently


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterward found; afterward learned; afterwards ascertained; afterwards became; afterwards called; afterwards discovered; afterwards found; afterwards known; afterwards learned; afterwards learnt