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How to use hereafter in a sentence

13 example sentences · adverb, noun, adjective

Hereafter means from now on. Example: “I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write.”

Examples of hereafter by meaning

adverbFrom now on.

  • I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write.1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order...

More sentences with hereafter

  • Through the worship of Mahāmayā one gains success in this world as well as emancipation hereafter.1990, Govind Chandra Pande, Foundations of Indian Culture, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry supergoddess
  • Owing to his sugarcane habit, his stubby front teeth are all pretty much gone to the sweet hereafter.2003, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry sweet hereafter
  • The transitory element of living called death, therefore, points from the nothingness of death to the everythingness of life hereafter.2002, P. N. Wachege, Living to Die, Dying to Live: African Christian Insights. From the entry everythingness
  • More generally in this region, coatis are called “chulo bears” or simply “chulos,” and will be so referred to hereafter.1974, Bil Gilbert, “Chulo”, in Backpacker, page 89. From the entry coati
  • Of the fulfillment of the prophecy, more hereafter.1914: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio, volume 20, page 70. From the entry haedine
  • A brush with death and a brief trip to the hereafter left vintage clothing store owner Nicki Styx an unwilling ghoulfriend to the dead.2009, Teri Garey, A Match Made in Hell, back cover. From the entry ghoulfriend
  • In order to avoid the potential for terminological confusion signaled above, I shall hereafter refer to the baragouin attributed to Caribs as Caribbean Pidgin French.1996, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, volume 11, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry baragouin
  • For field release trials, two C. p. fatigans breeding places (hereafter referred to as sites “A” and “B”) were selected in Pali Township, Taipei County.1976, Pao-shu Chen, “A Study on Reesimermis Nielseni for Control of Culex Pipiens Fatigans in Taiwan”, in Bulletin of the Institute of…. From the entry pali
  • The three-dimensional problem consisted of three subpuzzles or sets of pieces; the three subpuzzles (hereafter called parts) could be assembled into one large block.1968, American Psychological Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, volume 3, page 411. From the entry subpuzzle
  • He looked out over the harbor with the gaze of a man without interest in life, in the world, or in the hereafter.1922 November, A.E. Dingle, “A Bride from the Sea: A Complete Novelette—The Strange Cruise of the Seafarer and Her Crew of a Sailor, a…. From the entry bovinely
  • Nevertheless, our data indicate that azimuth – which the second hidden layer (hereafter, audiomotor layer) needs to extract – is coded by two different mechanisms which are both essential.2002, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, →ISBN. From the entry audiomotor
  • Tommy Atkins will serve with pluck and valor wherever he fights hereafter, as always; but the conduct of the war is passing out of our hands.1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance, Back Bay Books, published 2002, page 507. From the entry Tommy Atkins

Meaning of hereafter

  1. adverb From now on.
  2. adverb Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.).
  3. adverb In time to come; in some future time or state.

Full definition of hereafter

Questions about hereafter in a sentence

How do you use hereafter in a sentence?
Hereafter is used as an adverb, noun and adjective. For example: “I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write.”
What is a short sentence with hereafter?
“Of the fulfillment of the prophecy, more hereafter.”
What does hereafter mean?
Hereafter means from now on.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hereafter (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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