afterward

Example Sentences

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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

King, who scored one point during the game, quipped afterward, “I’ll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

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

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

In Los Angeles, for example, the earliest sunrise occurs before the solstice, while the latest sunset takes place afterward.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

Shortly afterward, he boarded a train in Florence with a painting among his trunks—and he was immediately mobbed by a crowd who assumed the painting was the Mona Lisa.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day