How to Use hereafter in a Sentence

hereafter

1 of 2 adverb
  • We don't know what will happen hereafter.
  • Hereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.
  • Then choose to live your life hereafter in a place beyond his reach.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing that happens hereafter is the steam shower’s fault.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2025
  • There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
    — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Our history will appear a gigantic lie hereafter, when we are shrunk again to our own little island.
    — Brooke Allen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Hereafter, the defendant is to avoid guns, individuals who carry guns and gang culture.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In ancient times, families hoped that through such intercession, the dead person would receive a better place in the life hereafter.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • But for some reason, the 25th wing (hereafter, The Phantom Wing) costs only 55 cents.
    — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 28 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Her loss was then greatly felt among the music community, and rest of the world, at the 55th Grammys later that weekend and hereafter.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • There is nothing here that indicates, as the late Professor Harbage has well said, that in order to be king hereafter Macbeth must be murderer first.
    — Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Affirm that efforts meant to keep Reddit accountable to its commitments and deadlines will hereafter not be met with insults, threats, removals, or hostility.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our primary objective in aiding Ukraine, as when coming to the aid of Kuwait and South Korea, is to prevent aggression by our enemies from succeeding, so that such aggression becomes less likely hereafter.
    — Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • By accepting the prize, winner grants to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law).
    — Cbs La Staff, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • By accepting the prize, winners grant to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law).
    — Cbs La Staff, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • By accepting the prize, winners grant to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law).
    — Cbs La Staff, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026

hereafter

2 of 2 noun
  • Some people spend all their lives in that search for the hereafter.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • As with the Qin, Han society, at least at elite levels, focused on the hereafter.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Somewhere in the hereafter, Tony Stark is exceedingly jealous.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 26 June 2017
  • 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, 26 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Florida has this weekend become the biggest fan of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt, and any other school playing Ole Miss and Missouri hereafter.
    — Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The trio’s nimble performances are given sprightly support by Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early as consultants trying to guide their clients to the best possible hereafter.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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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