after all
Example Sentences
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But at least he left us on a steady footing, relieved that we weren’t wrong about him after all.
From Salon
Imagine how much it must hurt him to say he was wrong after all the talk.
From BBC
An Iberia spokeswoman said its flight went “through the area after all the actual debris had already fallen, so there was no safety risk.”
Few sublunary powers are, after all, as attainable as an expertise in words; or as a peruser of the Collegiate might put it, it’s a major flex.
Of course, some of the best war movies contain far murkier layers, with the Americans or the allies or the Brits questioning whether they are in fact the good guys after all.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.