How to Use postscript in a Sentence

postscript

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  • In a postscript to her letter, she promised to write again soon.
  • An interesting postscript to the story is that the two people involved later got married.
  • Plus, there’s a postscript, which comes by way of an irony.
    — Dan Jones, Time, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The postscripts on this game aren’t pleasant for fans of the Silver and Black.
    — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The postscript with the hobbits is still dull, but everything else in this still knocks you over.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The postscript to this story, of course, is the inevitable return to real life.
    — Annabelle Dunne, Vogue, 17 June 2018
  • Any coaching from Saban will have to come in postscript form.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • She was drawn in by the taboo of the act — the way it was recorded as a sort of postscript, dealt with most deftly by women authors.
    — Mallika Rao, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Postscript Apologies in advance for the length of this postscript.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 June 2020
  • The circumstances of Dawn Powell’s grave are, in some ways, a fitting postscript to her life.
    — Jillian Rayfield, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So in February, Akhavi signed a new plea deal, sans the Farsi postscript.
    — azcentral, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Elaine May’s seedy 1976 crime flick is a type of ending in itself, acting as a sobering postscript to the macho heist and mafia movies of the decade.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The actress capped off her message with a pointed postscript.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2020
  • As the postscript says, the Duke remarried five weeks after his divorce was ruled.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In a postscript, the spokeswoman claimed that British defense researchers had spent decades testing nerve agents on 3,400 guinea pigs.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The assaults were a postscript to sectarian violence in the area, dubbed the 'Wave of Terror,', which began in the fall of 2015.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • When you’re done, check out Simpson’s 2020 postscript for a chilling follow-up.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Allen denies all of these incidents, according to a postscript in the episode.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • On Easter Sunday 1933, Schulz packed up copies of his postscripts in a suitcase and traveled to Warsaw.
    — Ruth Franklin, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • There's one more postscript to this odd story: No one knows, yet, exactly where this volcano was.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
  • Waiting all day Sunday for authorities to do something about the corpse was a strange postscript to what had been a long, sad night.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The pair also added a humorous postscript in which the 37-year-old Crosby insisted that the 31-year-old O'Donnell sleep in his jersey.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022
  • The postscript to this news, of course, is that the worst offenders in this industry are still going to get paid, one way or another.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 June 2021
  • The film's postscript suggests, by the footballer's standards, a journey has been taken in recent years.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 12 June 2019
  • The book adds postscripts to most of its entries, detailing which items have been reissued, either on LP or CD or as downloads.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 19 June 2017
  • Those numbers are a happy postscript to the fight that Billie Jean King started more than 40 years ago, as depicted here.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Sohn’s move to Flushing feels like a postscript that brings Follow the Cyborg into clearer focus.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There is a postscript that should have been included in Friday’s story about the Lakers’ historic 33-game winning streak.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • According to the table of contents, the memoir was to be divided into 8 chapters and a postscript.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The mudslides mark the cruel postscript to the Thomas Fire, which burned for much of December to become the largest wildfire by area in California history.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018

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