How to Use afterword in a Sentence

afterword

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  • The novel has a foreword by an eminent critic and an afterword by the author herself.
  • John Leguizamo wrote the foreword, while Don Cheadle wrote the afterword.
    — Jessica Migala, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • By the afterword, he’s led us through the first year of the Biden administration.
    — Emily Tamkin, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In his afterword, Holiday writes of a time when his own courage failed him.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The commentary was so long, Pruitt used it as an afterword.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In an afterword, Bloom notes that the White House staff routinely cropped Hickok out of photos.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Bellak wrote in the book’s afterword about the lost memories of her farewell with Renia.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The afterword of the report was written by Happer of Princeton.
    — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Though there is a forthcoming book which will feature the scripts from seasons 1 and 2, as well as an afterword from Waller-Bridge.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The afterword of this book is written by Malcolm’s daughter, Anne.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In a new afterword, Mr. Zolten traces how the Birds have forged on with new members and now enjoy a global following.
    — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Luhan’s memoir Lorenzo in Taos (1932), on which Second Place is based, as the brief afterword explains.
    — Claire Jarvis, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In an afterword, a 77-year-old Walker promises a Volume II.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 28 Mar. 2022
  • An afterword from Waller-Bridge that explores the process of making and writing the series will follow each season’s scripts.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The documentary is based on the afterword that Mason wrote.
    — Tammerlin Drummond, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • In an afterword, the scholar steps aside and the walker recounts two nocturnal ambles of his own, in London and Paris.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The reason for this disjointedness is explained in the afterword (as well as in much of the book’s publicity).
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
  • His most recent visit involved the foreword and afterword for a book, Laxton said.
    — al, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For me, the single most devastating sentence in your book is from Seán’s afterword.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022
  • It was reissued in July 2007 with revisions and a new afterword.
    — Cathy Lynn Grossmann, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Ten years later, Graham updated the final chapters and added a new afterword for the book, published in 2007.
    — Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Frances’s afterword was the most personal and unabashedly emotional of the three parts.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Jenkins and Lynch have provided the preface and afterword.
    — Susan King, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • On Memorial Day weekend, Bruner, who wrote a new afterword to the book, will return to the city where Parrish’s life was upended, to mark the centennial of the massacre.
    — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
  • In his afterword, excerpted here, Pecknold explains his songwriting process and the lessons he’s learned.
    — Robin Pecknold, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Sciolino reaches the right elegiac note in her afterword.
    — Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • With luck this outstanding book will prompt its rediscovery, and Mr. Kildea can update readers in a new afterword.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Adding that afterword, DeWitt writes her struggles into the history of her novel.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2017
  • At the other extreme, the exquisite silence of the plates in lavish monographs is sometimes protected by only the slimmest prefaces or afterwords.
    — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Gale wrote the introduction and the book also boasts an afterword by director Robert Zemeckis.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023

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