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Example sentences for "just after"

  • Just after dinner we pass a stream on the right, which leaps into' the Colorado by a direct fall of more than 100 feet, forming a beautiful cascade.

  • Just after dinner we come to another bad place.

  • We camp at night, just after a hard portage, under an overhanging wall, glad to find shelter from the rain.

  • Well, you can't go on straining your brain like that forever without something breaking loose, and one night, just after I had gone to bed, I got it.

  • My experience is that a fellow never really looks his best just after he's come out of a cell.

  • About half-past ten next morning, just after I had finished lubricating the good old interior with a soothing cup of Oolong, Jeeves filtered into my bedroom, and said that Cyril was waiting to see me in the sitting-room.

  • The reign of terror ended only with the sudden death of Marius, just after he had been elected to his seventh consulship.

  • Just after I made my dive, I observed that this light came from the side of the rock above which we are now sitting; so I struck out for it, and saw an opening into some place or other that appeared to be luminous within.

  • De preacher was prayin', just after de fust sermon, but him never got to de amen part of dat prayer.

  • I's been 'possum huntin' wid your pappy, when he lived on de Wateree, just after de war.

  • Just after de war de Yankees marched through our place and stole some cattle and run away wid dem.

  • Sam ran against me, as I went up over the stairs, and the young 'squire did the like, more disagreeably, just after I had crossed the threshold.

  • Thus, just after we started, and were turning to the left at Mark’s Tey, a bright glare followed by a loudish report came from the right of the road.

  • The first shot I heard fired, just after ten o’clock, was at the Strand end of Fleet Street, at the corner of Chancery Lane.

  • Then at last, just after sundown, I descended and carefully made my way out.

  • Just after he had left me, the crowd then commenced to surge down and fill up the street.

  • Just after sunset, and before darkness had set in, a Hindu sepoy was observed creeping stealthily towards the house, apparently anxious to attract the attention of the inmates, and equally bent on avoiding observation from outside.

  • But Ramzan Khan, having a very swift horse, overtook us just after we had turned into the Agra road.

  • He said one day, just after one of these braggarts had been soundly thrashed by the Confederates: "These fellows remind me of the fellow who owned a dog which, so he said, just hungered and thirsted to combat and eat up wolves.

  • General Grant told this story about Lincoln some years after the War: "Just after receiving my commission as lieutenant-general the President called me aside to speak to me privately.

  • Just after my youngest child was--" A nurse passes through the grove, bearing a sterilized tray with peptonized preparations on it.

  • The Loriotte came in just after dark, and let go her anchor, making no attempt to pick up the other until the next day.

  • Along the narrow rocky ravine we rode--just after midday in June--and the sun shot down at us.

  • Ebenezer died with a smile on his countenance, or just after one.

  • An honest man iz the noblest work ov God," this famus saying waz written, in grate anguish ov heart, by the late Alexander Pope, just after buying a good family hoss.

  • Did you not see what happened this evening in the conservatory, just after dinner?

  • It is Fainacky who puts this question to the Countess Treurenberg, just after luncheon, during which meal he has contrived to ingratiate himself thoroughly with Lato's wife.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just after" 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:
    entangling alliances; flow through; full power; just about; just and; just back; just been; just enough; just exactly; just happened; just here; just know; just now; just once; just previous; just published; just said; just the; just then; just this; just what; just wish; justify himself; justify the; justifying righteousness; justly proud