afterward

Example Sentences

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Soon afterward, she signed a pair of emergency orders instructing city building officials to suspend those fees while the council works out the details of a new permit relief program.

From Los Angeles Times

Of course, the timing would have been horrible, given what happened to gold and silver prices right afterward.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once, when we lived in Texas, the paramedics came to a neighbor’s house, and afterward everyone went over to check on the family.

From Literature

As Belafonte later wrote, Poitier told him afterward, half joking, half shaken: “Don’t ever call me again for something like this.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They tasted of that which you craved most, but also, if you ate more than one, made you vomit something black for days afterward.

From Literature