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How to use afters in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Afters means dessert. Example: “What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.”

Examples of afters by meaning

nounDessert.

  • What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.

nounThe festivities held after a wedding meal.

  • To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.

nounFighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.

  • 42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.2010 David Lewis South Africa v England - as it happened: Proteas rip into top order as tourists flounder Daily Mail (16 January 2010)

nounAn after-hours drinking session in a public house.

  • It was an afters pub, which meant it closed at 11 p.m., doors bolted, but with us all inside.2017, Chris Difford, Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze

More sentences with afters

  • It’s as you would expect, all love and longing, hearts on sleeves and happily ever afters.2021, Victoria McFarlane, I Don’t Want You, →ISBN. From the entry hearts on sleeves
  • I showed them these before and afters and told them I thought they’d make a good article.2004, Vik Orenstein, quoting Bryan Peterson, Photographer’s Market Guide to Building Your Photography Business: Everything You Need to…. From the entry before and after
  • In the real world, there are no happily ever afters, no storybook endings.1994 May 25, [Karen] Shepherd, “Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1995”, in Congressional…. From the entry happily ever after
  • We shared a few photos of our first home’s transformation in the preface, but sometimes before and afters can be dangerous.2012, Sherry Petersik, John Petersik, Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry before and after
  • Did any of the before pictures remind you of yourself, and did any of the afters show what you hoped your results might be?1998, Alan Gaynor, “How to Choose a Doctor”, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cosmetic Surgery But Couldn’t Afford to Ask: A…. From the entry after
  • On the right are the “afters.”1918 April, “Before and After”, in Arthur Deerin Call, editor, Advocate of Peace, volume LXXX, number 4, Washington, D.C.: American Peace…. From the entry before
  • They are the one that will keep the party going, take you on to a good late night swally and if you're lucky, hook you up with some afters.2017 December 15, Jules Boyle, “Roasters you always meet in Glasgow over Christmas”, in Glasgow Live. From the entry swally

Meaning of afters

  1. noun Dessert.
  2. noun The festivities held after a wedding meal.
  3. noun Fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.

Full definition of afters

Questions about afters in a sentence

How do you use afters in a sentence?
Afters is used as a noun. For example: “What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.”
What is a short sentence with afters?
“On the right are the “afters.””
What does afters mean?
Afters means dessert.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afters (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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