How to Use afterword in a Sentence

afterword

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024