How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

noun
  • Does he believe in an afterlife?
  • Want a crash course on the afterlife?
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • There was no afterlife for him.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Just groups of life, and afterlife.
    — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026
  • Which, back in the day, was kind of a trashy thing to wear to the afterlife.
    — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • What is the afterlife of this group of activists?
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Some wanted to meet him in the afterlife.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Then comes the afterlife of a garment.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • What is the afterlife of this play when Trump is no longer in office?
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Bootlegs have taken on their own afterlife.
    — Jeff Ihaza, VIBE.com, 11 June 2026
  • This is a term often used by pet owners to mean the afterlife.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But then Cary Grant is busy right now — in the afterlife.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • For my mother, these were objects of an afterlife—and the house was a tomb.
    — Laura Raskin, Curbed, 18 May 2018
  • Lamps were sometimes buried with the dead to light their way into the afterlife.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • From the afterlife, Michael and Janet watch her progress with glee.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 2 Feb. 2018
  • King Tut was buried with a passel of the seeds, to spice up the afterlife.
    — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Something about god and the soul and angels and the afterlife.
    — Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • What’s a wedding night in the afterlife without a few frights?
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
  • Elvis' afterlife Death has not slowed Elvis.
    — John Beifuss, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Around you the parched land and empty sky point less to the idea of death and more to labors in the afterlife.
    — Fred Marchant, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Just the afterlife of a season full of promise.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Which characters moved on to the afterlife (and with whom)?
    — Janey Tracey, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
  • Leave it to David Bowie to make his presence known in the afterlife.
    — Fred Sahai, Billboard, 3 May 2022
  • As the series progressed, Doug took on an afterlife of his own.
    — Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • When the ritual concludes, the body is ready for the earth, the soul for the afterlife.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
  • To be buried with a drum, perhaps, gave one an advantage in the afterlife.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Nick has been cursed by the Mummy, who thinks of him as her future plus-one in the afterlife.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017

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