How to Use after all in a Sentence

after all

adverb
  • And why, after all of this, is the filibuster still a thing?
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That, after all, is his only real goal this time around.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Things with Graceland aren’t going to be all shook up, after all.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2024
  • It’s responsible for one of the film’s Oscars after all.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This is the airline industry in the 21st century, after all.
    Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There was, after all, little that La Bakaire didn’t understand about resistance.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Should Mack/Rita embrace being an influencer after all?
    Amy Nicholson, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • For this pyramid, sheer size is not the real superlative; Vegas, after all, has its own, even larger tetrahedral hotel.
    Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But after all of those investments, Casale plans on waiting a few years before switching to an electric vehicle and getting a charging plug at home.
    Steven Mufson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There's something so romantic, after all, about marrying as the leaves change to brilliant colors, the temperature cools, and the harvest reaches its peak.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2022
  • What, after all, is the difference between this sad little white-collar existence and what you, playing the game, are choosing to do, sitting in front of a screen, watching this scene?
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The Big Ten had an invitation for the University of Oregon, after all.
    oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The harder the swing, after all, the firmer the contact.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • The goal, after all, is to get people to wager on the game.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Changes were made, of course — a movie is not a book, after all.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Here are the boys and girls stat leaders after all games through Jan. 19.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2023
  • This is Texas, after all, so there’s no need for SMU to fold ‘em.
    Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Food and cooking is a great source of joy for the actress after all.
    Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Packed in a hurry, the raincoat came in handy after all.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Now they're being told the loans weren't dead after all.
    Michael Hill, ajc, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Now they’re being told the loans weren’t dead after all.
    Michael Hill, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That, after all, is the abiding impression of the squad the club has built.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Somehow after all of that the Dolphins still had one more first rounder from the 49ers.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This is a team with a home win over Arizona, after all.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Even after all this time, that's worth raising a glass to.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The clouds and the fog are, after all, what make the Smokies so magical.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Get a bit of blood under your nails. ’Tis the season, after all.
    Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • When something’s off in your body chemistry -- the brain is a part of the body, after all -- medicine is there to help.
    Annie Lane, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And that, after all, is what sponsors expect from the Super Bowl in the first place.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The waning allure of white-collar gigs Indeed, younger generations are simply taking note of the market they’re being thrust into; the white-collar workforce has gone through a rough patch lately, after all.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024

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