How to Use hereafter in a Sentence
- We don't know what will happen hereafter.
- Hereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.
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But for some reason, the 25th wing (hereafter, The Phantom Wing) costs only 55 cents.
—Russell Brandom, The Verge, 28 Oct. 2018
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There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
—William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2020
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And hereafter: Always be mindful of the cost and service level of a restaurant before making demands of the staff.
—Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
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And, hereafter: Always be mindful of the price point and service level of a restaurant before making demands of the staff.
—Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
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On the individual level, as the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world – that comes in the world hereafter.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 15 May 2017
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Our history will appear a gigantic lie hereafter, when we are shrunk again to our own little island.
—Brooke Allen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
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Saying that to them out loud, and thanking them, would be a fitting end bracket to this period — and a start to your seeing their choices hereafter as standing up for themselves.
—Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
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The detective won’t forget, not on any Christmas Eve hereafter, his awful duty to carry out a little body as evidence of a felony.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
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Hereafter, the defendant is to avoid guns, individuals who carry guns and gang culture.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2017
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In a special exhibition entitled hereafter, the world’s changing ecosystem is examined in the context of its effect on the living environment.
—Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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Instead, be nothing but warm and welcoming to his family hereafter, and consider tweaking or outright eliminating items on the wedding agenda that expose these cultural differences.
—Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2017
- We don't know what will happen hereafter.
- Hereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.
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But for some reason, the 25th wing (hereafter, The Phantom Wing) costs only 55 cents.
—Russell Brandom, The Verge, 28 Oct. 2018
-
There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
—William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2020
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And hereafter: Always be mindful of the cost and service level of a restaurant before making demands of the staff.
—Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
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And, hereafter: Always be mindful of the price point and service level of a restaurant before making demands of the staff.
—Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
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On the individual level, as the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world – that comes in the world hereafter.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 15 May 2017
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Our history will appear a gigantic lie hereafter, when we are shrunk again to our own little island.
—Brooke Allen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
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Saying that to them out loud, and thanking them, would be a fitting end bracket to this period — and a start to your seeing their choices hereafter as standing up for themselves.
—Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
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The detective won’t forget, not on any Christmas Eve hereafter, his awful duty to carry out a little body as evidence of a felony.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
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Hereafter, the defendant is to avoid guns, individuals who carry guns and gang culture.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2017
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In a special exhibition entitled hereafter, the world’s changing ecosystem is examined in the context of its effect on the living environment.
—Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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Instead, be nothing but warm and welcoming to his family hereafter, and consider tweaking or outright eliminating items on the wedding agenda that expose these cultural differences.
—Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2017
- We don't know what will happen hereafter.
- Hereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.
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But for some reason, the 25th wing (hereafter, The Phantom Wing) costs only 55 cents.
—Russell Brandom, The Verge, 28 Oct. 2018
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There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
—William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2020
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Some people spend all their lives in that search for the hereafter.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
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Or does a vast swath of nothingness await in the hereafter?
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2018
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The feast is about destiny and art, and the joy of living in the now rather than sacrificing for the hereafter.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
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The peacemakers may well be blessed in the hereafter, but in the earthly realm they are treated as badly as the poor and the meek.
—Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
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Maybe Don Hilario can commission a full-pager from the hereafter to fund our good work?
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
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As with the Qin, Han society, at least at elite levels, focused on the hereafter.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
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The common people or souls of heaven resided eternally in the suburbs away from the main drag of the hereafter.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2019
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All are songs of loss, love, hope and faith in the hereafter — the greatest tribute Willie Nelson could offer his beloved sister.
—Thom Duffy, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
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The open-ended ending is great, as is Stewart’s haunting exploration of a woman caught between the right here and the hereafter.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2020
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The bardo (a Tibetan concept of an intermediate state; in this case, between death and the hereafter) is full of ghosts that greet young Willie on his arrival.
—Moira MacDonald / Seattle Times, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2017
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On the individual level, the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world; that comes in the hereafter (Kiddushin 39b).
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2022
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Flash forward 50 years: Both my parents recently passed into the hereafter.
—Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
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Death is a permanent break in continuity, and your personal POV cannot be moved from your brain into some other medium, here or in the hereafter.
—Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
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Somewhere in the hereafter, Tony Stark is exceedingly jealous.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
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The gift speaks volumes about the benefits that big donors receive from their philanthropy, both in this life and the hereafter, and about the economics of billionaire philanthropy itself.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
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Awakening on the escalator to the hereafter, Joe makes a desperate break to go back, leading to a fairly amusing tour of what the great beyond might resemble.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Dec. 2020
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No more merchants or clerks are wanted; and of those who come hereafter, nine-tenths will go back disappointed or impoverished, or stay here paupers.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
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In the hereafter, Michael sets up narrative threads, matches soul mates together, and tries to make sure everyone is happy eternally.
—Noah Berlatsky, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
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Industry captains say that the economy has bottomed out and will be on an upswing hereafter reaching pre-covid levels in another six months.
—Ramakrishnan Narayanan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
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And yet, though the book’s hereafter looks backward to us today, there’s something very timely about its play with gender fluidity and the social construction of identity.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
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In the hereafter, Michael sets up narrative threads, matches soulmates together, and tries to make sure everyone is happy eternally.
—Noah Berlatsky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
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To those raised in religious traditions, Christian or otherwise, the most obvious explanation is that they were granted a vision of heaven or hell, of what awaits them in the hereafter.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
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Byzantium perished not from a dearth of Greek Fire, but from a dearth of people willing to fight from inside its walls against the hundreds of thousands below, each one promised material pleasures in the hereafter for killing Christian Westerners.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 11 July 2017
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Instead, the film takes an open, and almost radically vulnerable, look at the future of being famous, a hereafter Eilish is crafting before our very eyes.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
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Anyone who has even casually admired the Philadelphia Orchestra music director’s concerts knows how much he is attracted to composers’ late-period works, the ninth symphonies that contemplate the mysteries of the hereafter.
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
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Some people spend all their lives in that search for the hereafter.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
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Or does a vast swath of nothingness await in the hereafter?
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2018
-
The feast is about destiny and art, and the joy of living in the now rather than sacrificing for the hereafter.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
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The peacemakers may well be blessed in the hereafter, but in the earthly realm they are treated as badly as the poor and the meek.
—Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
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Maybe Don Hilario can commission a full-pager from the hereafter to fund our good work?
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
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