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Example sentences for "long afterward"

  • Many threats were uttered, and much abuse cast on me," said Patrick himself, long afterward.

  • Once, long afterward, at a hotel, he wanted a boy to polish his shoes, and had rung a number of times without getting any response.

  • Long afterward he would become Nigger Jim in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn tales, and so in his gentle guilelessness win immortality and the love of many men.

  • I loved the profession far better than any I have followed since," he long afterward declared, "and I took a measureless pride in it.

  • He told me, long afterward, that he thought me that morning an "odd one.

  • I asked Nort once, long afterward, if he could remember the first impression he had when he came to Hempfield and saw the printing-office.

  • Long afterward, when we had become much better acquainted, Anthy told me one day, very quietly, of the greatest memory of her childhood.

  • She told me long afterward that it seemed at first a little absurd to be actually writing letters to Mr. Lincoln, but that it relieved her mind and made her feel more cheerful in her loneliness.

  • And never (he thanked Heaven for that, long afterward), never for a moment did he misunderstand her.

  • He only remembered afterward, long afterward, that on that night when he had spoken of Mercier she had "looked queer.

  • She thought of it long afterward, when the house was as quiet as its sleeping mistress, and the pale stars faded to pearl at the hour of dawn.

  • Long afterward, in the solitude of her room, she took the precious thought from its hiding-place, and found it purest gold.

  • Long afterward, Iris remembered the look on Margaret's face as she said it, but the tears blinded her just then.

  • The deeps are stirred to their foundations, and, long afterward, there is a single vast strophe, majestic and immortal, which takes its place by right in the symphony of pain.

  • Long afterward he said: "It is forty years ago; from that day to this she has never been out of my mind.

  • These parts, long afterward, probably in Babylonia, became the twenty-four hours which have descended to us.

  • You won't know till long, long afterward.

  • He I'm telling you of never knew any thing of what his friend had done till long afterward.

  • Long afterward, he found out that she had never seen the letter he wrote, but a very different one, of his friend's concoction.

  • Once, long afterward, Cornelia remembered that kiss, and the words that had accompanied it; and pondered over the bitter significance with which the simple act and playful agreement had become fraught.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long afterward" 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:
    dear reader; long absence; long accustomed; long afore; long and; long been; long corridor; long duration; long engagement; long grass; long inscription; long life; long lines; long pause; long piece; long range; long ranges; long residence; long robe; long side; long sigh; long speech; long tyme; longer alone; longer needed; longer possible