afterglow

Example Sentences

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The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Whether they take his advice literally remains to be seen, but the celebrations were significant in the afterglow of victory.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Indeed, in the afterglow of the franchise’s first full-season title in more than three decades, the turbulent path getting there became easy to forget.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

There was the liquid alarm I saw in the blood-red glare of the sun’s afterglow mirrored in the squared panes of whitewashed frame houses.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright