THEREAFTER in a Sentence

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The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.

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 Meanings and Examples of THEREAFTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thereafter
 ad.  from that time on
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Frank regretted ever mentioning it for, thereafter, she had questioned him about it again and again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  The nurse was discharged and thereafter followed a series of nurses who remained, at the most, a week.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
4  He did come home early thereafter, arriving long before time for Bonnie to be put to bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
5  But, thereafter, he limited his drinking to a glass of wine after supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  But Scarlett knew that, having once received her, they could not cut her thereafter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  She made her first jump with flying colors and, thereafter, riding abroad with her father held no charms for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
8  They shouted and threw snowballs, and informed her that it was SUCH fun, and they'd have another skiing expedition right away, and they jollily returned home and never thereafter left their manuals of bridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  One Saturday night he did not come home, and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
10  And thereafter it lay stretched in the distance behind a long gray wall, that one was obliged to look twice at to make sure that it was smoke.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  His mind shrank from going near to the danger, and thereafter he was silent.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  Next, she took a seat upon the sofa, drew around her her merino gown, and sat thereafter without moving an eyelid or an eyebrow.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  What thereafter was done by Selifan and Petrushka God alone knows.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
14  On the other hand, I demand of him thereafter more than is demanded of a peasant anywhere else.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  Then he felt constrained to intimate that with all that he had nothing to do, seeing that his business was merely to acquire a few souls, and thereafter to have their purchase confirmed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Poisoned the weapon was beyond any doubt, and thereafter Binu Charley carried it threateningly at the prisoner's back.
2  Dürer's famous watercolour and gouache drawing Young Hare is a masterpiece in observation; its impeccable rendering served as benchmark for centuries thereafter.
3  Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.