How to Use posthumous in a Sentence

posthumous

adjective
  • She received a posthumous award for her life of philanthropy.
  • So the Stooges project with Third Man is a bit of posthumous justice.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The past few years have seen a flurry of such posthumous hits.
    The Economist, 30 July 2020
  • King earns a new posthumous No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart this week.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Croce was the first artist in Grammy history to receive a posthumous nod for record of the year.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In June of this year, the rapper received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    Rio Yamat, Jonathan Landrum Jr. and Maria Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • In March, the first single from the star’s posthumous album was released.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The Goncalves will be there to receive Kaylee's posthumous degree.
    Kayna Whitworth, ABC News, 12 May 2023
  • Standing in the way, of course, is all the posthumous image-making.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 May 2022
  • Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer.
    Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 25 May 2021
  • The Walk of Fame honor is the latest posthumous achievement for Hussle, who was shot and killed in 2019.
    Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • With any luck, this is just the beginning of a long posthumous career.
    Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Less obvious is that the show amounts to a posthumous tribute to Schwartz.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
  • He was killed that day, earning a posthumous Navy Cross.
    Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
  • So a posthumous piece of paper from the mayor of Birmingham might or might not mean much to the guy.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Coverage of the case helped spur a posthumous pardon from the queen and the abolition of the death penalty in Britain.
    Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • He was awarded two posthumous awards at the 62nd Grammy Awards.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 6 July 2022
  • Is the posthumous Phife Dawg album still on the calendar for March?
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal in 2008's The Dark Knight.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Now the rapper's posthumous single with the singer has been released.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 16 July 2021
  • Many thought the rapper would become the first artist to receive a posthumous Grammy nod for best new artist.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Tim, more than any of their records, prefigured the 1990s rock boom that made these guys posthumous legends.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Mr Joseph is hardly the first to argue that King’s posthumous image is too soft.
    The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • The week’s biggest headlines centered on a pair of high-profile sales — one post-move and one posthumous.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
  • Four tracks featured from these dates were released on the posthumous album Moody Blue.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Four tracks featured from these dates were released on the posthumous album, Moody Blue.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Even his 1996 death couldn't dim his star, thanks to a barrage of posthumous releases.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 June 2020
  • The title Good News, however, was a direct nod to Mac Miller’s first posthumous single of the same name.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2021
  • Twelve of them altogether now, posthumous faces to the wall in his studio.
    Nicole Krauss, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • His brother, Blacc Sam, recently revealed that Hussle’s first posthumous album will come out this summer.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 27 Feb. 2025

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