afterglow

Example Sentences

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The cosmic microwave background, which is the faint afterglow left behind by the Big Bang, contains valuable information about the early universe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 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

In the afterglow of victory, he pulled on a t-shirt bearing an image of himself and his daughter planting a PSG flag.

From BBC • May 31, 2025

At first she doesn’t see it—the only light is coming from the kitchen, drifting out to us like the afterglow from another world.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan