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Example sentences for "little after"

  • A little after two o'clock Thring and King returned with the good news that there is still water in Purdie Ponds; there is as much as will do for us until Monday morning.

  • A little after four o'clock I found I must leave them.

  • Suppose this were so well done, within a little after, though a man had Croesus' wealth to bestow, there would be as many more.

  • Again, a little after to Maximus, [1911]"I cannot express how pleasing it is to me to hear myself commended.

  • A little after, the like happened to Brennus, lightning, thunder, earthquakes, upon such a sacrilegious occasion.

  • At a little after half-past six, as he was sitting down to his supper, a bomb was thrown through the window of his dining-room, exploding near the doorway leading into the hall.

  • When the Romans had defeated the Tarquins, who were combined with the Latins, a little after, there were seen at Rome two tall and comely men, who professed to bring the news from the camp.

  • It was within half an hour of sunset when we entered the first wood; and a little after sunset, when we came into the plain.

  • A little after this my ink began to fail me, and so I contented myself to use it more sparingly, and to write down only the most remarkable events of my life, without continuing a daily memorandum of other things.

  • Wall anon, or perhaps a little after, we came to where we could see the face of Beautiful Saratoga Lake, layin' a smilin' up into the skies.

  • I returned to the station a little after six, and, to my surprise, found Miss Cullen walking up and down the platform.

  • We started a little after five, and were clear of the timber before it was too dark to see.

  • We rode into the camp at the Grand CaƱon a little after eight, and the deserted look of the tents gave me a moment's fright, for I feared that the party had gone.

  • It seemed probable, that his nephew's party might gain force from the increase of the malecontents: an accession of power which that prince acquired a little after, tended to render his pretensions still more dangerous.

  • A little after, though I know not how, I thought I was transformed into a tabor, and she into a chough.

  • Which, although at the beginning it seemed difficult, became a little after so sweet, so easy, and so delightful, that it seemed rather the recreation of a king than the study of a scholar.

  • A little after, a man rode up to the door and got off his horse's back and went in, and there was come the shepherd of Thorhilda and her husband.

  • A little after, they rode from the west over the river, and came to the spot where the meeting had been by Rangriver, and dug up the bodies, and took witness to the wounds.

  • A little after he stood up, and bade his men go with him: they did so, and fared to Njal's booth.

  • Yes, the servant told him; Mr. Talboys had been there at two o'clock or a little after.

  • Robert left Audley the next morning by an early train, and reached Shoreditch a little after nine o'clock.

  • It had served her so little after all, that gloriously glittering hair, that beautiful nimbus of yellow light that had contrasted so exquisitely with the melting azure of her eyes.

  • Sir Michael Audley obeyed his pretty nurse, and went to bed a little after nine o'clock upon this bleak March evening.

  • And truly they had almost caused thee to quit the land, in order wholly to drive thee forth from it:24 but then, themselves should have tarried but a little after thee.

  • A little after 5 I anchored in 13 fathom good oazy ground.

  • Being nigh the shore we saw first one proa; a little after, 2 or 3 more; and at last a great many boats came from all the adjacent bays.

  • In this way we sweated up the slopes until, a little after noon, we reached a pass, and saw the roofs of the village over the edge of a broad step, as it were, half a mile above us.

  • We were to pick up the Eddystone; and as this was calculated to happen at sunset, or a little after, the usual sweepstake on the saloon-deck aroused a little more than the usual excitement.

  • He reached home a little after twelve, ate his dinner, and fell to work on his manuscript.

  • I was called up a little after five to attend upon my daughter-in-law.

  • Waking a little after three, I rose to pray, and found the watchful Keeper of Israel ready to listen to my early cry.

  • He would have me pray a blessing on their union; but I did not feel the same liberty I found in praying with the speechless man a little after.

  • I awoke a little after three, and arose at half-past four, with these words upon my mind, 'Who will consecrate his services this day unto the Lord?

  • A little after we had risen from our knees, one of them came in, and I seized the opportunity of pressing upon him the necessity of a change of heart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    false prophets; little bitterly; little black; little brothers; little cabin; little child shall lead; little clearing; little common; little door; little essence; little farm; little finger; little fool; little hesitation; little one; little open; little party; little rest; little saint; little sigh; little speech; little surprized; little voice; little water; said the crown prince; society itself