afterwards
Example Sentences
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She estimates about 15 to 20 people were on the enclosure's raised visitor walkway before staff quickly evacuated the area, and shortly afterwards, the park.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Around 30 PTI supporters in Peshawar briefly chanted slogans demanding Khan's release before being dispersed by police, only to return shortly afterwards in a game of cat and mouse, AFP journalists witnessed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Shortly afterwards, Pillay reacted to the news by saying "it must be a joke" and thanked those who had gathered to applaud her.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"That hostility did not simply disappear afterwards," Khoo Ying Hooi, an associate professor at Universiti Malaya, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Miss Temple was not to be seen: I knew afterwards that she had been called to a delirious patient in the fever-room.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
