How to Use come after in a Sentence

come after

verb
  • Sides and sauces can come after entrees; desserts should be at the very end of the page.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2026
  • But these come after reports that even their friends are worried.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 17 May 2026
  • The world of the Cold War is gone, and so is the one that came after it.
    — Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This win came after some contact on the tract and several restarts.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2026
  • So that would come after – PRES.
    — NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • No machine was coming after her.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • This came after a round of intense storms that brought down trees on Wednesday night.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • The challenge comes after the rollout.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
  • One of the teens used his pocket knife to defend himself when the armed men came after him and his friend.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2026
  • The addition came after years of struggling with rest.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
  • Bills don't stop coming after someone dies, experts said.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 23 May 2026
  • The halt came after a last-minute deal for a federal taxpayer bailout failed.
    — Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • The strait's closure comes after a dramatic back-and-forth over the status of the strait.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Those late runs came after Bradley had limited them to just five hits in his six innings of work.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Pompompurin's first win came after Cinnamoroll won for five years in a row.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
  • The debate comes after weeks of tense exchanges and shifting poll numbers.
    — James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Those signals came after the central bank held rates steady at the end of its two-day June meeting.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 19 June 2026
  • But what comes after helps to determine whether that success endures.
    — Royce Ramey, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • What if the interruption came after a single coin toss?
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Aledo baseball has three, with back-to-back titles coming after.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026
  • LaPread’s death comes after the group dropped out of Freedom 250.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 May 2026
  • The look comes after a string of other glamorous strapless gowns at the film festival.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 23 May 2026
  • What won the thing was everything that came after, the structure built to hold what the spirit started.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The platform came after the conviction, not before it.
    — True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The pickoff came after back-to-back walks to start the eighth inning and limited the damage in the top half of the frame.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • My first experience of a title win came after a long drought which had lasted my whole lifetime.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • The success this season came after a reset in the offseason.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • This is why catching sepsis early matters – not just for surviving it but for what comes after.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
  • The company said the tweaks were prompted by consumer feedback and came after more than a year of testing.
    — Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The change came after a couple of weeks of disappointing numbers.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026

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