afterward

Example Sentences

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“You will put a pot on your work top. It will heat up, and afterward, you can remove it—and chop your onions on the same surface.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

If the company insists that this is a separate problem, ask them to explain why a toilet that functioned one way before the repair and another way immediately afterward should attract a second diagnostic fee.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

“It was so fun,” Williams said afterward in an on-court interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

But in a post on X afterward, he called the story “fake news on steroids.”

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

At lunch, shortly afterward, he told a newsman that he was “not abandoning the match,” but Fischer had acted improperly.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady