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After in a sentence

Sentence examples for after. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

It’s all looked after.

The door shut after them.

“Look after this,” he said.

Sure, that’s what I’m after.

You looked after everything?

I just look after it for her.

Walcott came right out after him.

Paris was an awful big town after Milan.

The adjutant looked after him and smiled.

“I’m through after this fight,” Jack says.

After it was dark the train was in Avignon.

After breakfast we were out on the porch again.

After we finished eating we went out on the porch.

“You go down after him,” said Maera, “he hates me.”

She did not wave, but stood there looking after us.

When I heard him go downstairs I went down after him.

The bull stood, heavy and dull again after the action.

After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out.

After about thirty minutes or so Hogan and I went upstairs.

After breakfast Jack called up his wife on the long-distance.

And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.

After the seventh round Jack says, “My left’s getting heavy.”

“Well, after all,” I said, “he’s just an ignorant Mexican savage.”

Ag wrote him many letters that he never got until after the armistice.

“Yes,” Maera said, “and who will kill his bulls after he gets cogida?”

Liz sat at the table after she put on the food and ate with the family.

We drove for two hours after it was dark and slept in Mentone that night.

The little man walked after Nick and Sam, the cook, back into the kitchen.

After supper they went into the front room again and Liz cleaned off with Mrs. Smith.

After the armistice they agreed he should go home to get a job so they might be married.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.

He was feeling exalted and talkative like football players in the dressing room after a game.

After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod, and she winked at me again.

This isn’t just an epigram⁠—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

After he got on crutches he used to take the temperatures so Ag would not have to get up from the bed.

But that night he lay awake until after four, half wild with grief and fear and abominable imaginings.

He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said, “After all, it has happened before like that.”

It went away slowly, the feeling of disappointment that came sharply after the thrill that made his shoulders ache.

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby’s party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.

A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park.

Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.

His mother cried when he brought Cornelia home after their marriage but brightened very much when she learned they were going to live abroad.

They reached New York in March after an expensive and ill-advised week spent in Hot Springs, and Anthony resumed his abortive attempts at fiction.

But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.

They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.

They were tired of Dijon and anyway would now be able to say that after leaving Harvard or Columbia or Wabash, they had studied at the University of Dijon, down in the Côte d’Or.

To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.

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