How to Use afterworld in a Sentence

afterworld

noun

• Saunders gives us three tour guides to explain the rules of this afterworld.
  — Colson Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• Soon enough, the high-foreheaded mutineer is lashed to a fence, snarling madly like all the other post-death humans in this plague smitten afterworld.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Each is a high-concept comedy set in an afterworld with design flaws and equally flawed but charming staff.
  — Austin Considine, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• Lincoln's son narrates the afterworld – for those who want a summer reading challenge.
  — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2017
• In Bangkok, residents have folded more than 10 million flowers made of sandalwood, whose scent is believed to guide souls to the afterworld.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• There are no listeners in the afterworld, or post-departure messages to be given and received.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2020
• Most happily -- spoiler alert -- the show finally let on that somebody in this apocalyptic afterworld is thinking about a future beyond the next battle.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Zappers seem to bring out a particularly bloodthirsty element in their owners, many of whom describe zapping bugs into the afterworld with great relish.
  — Rebekah Kebede, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
• Lewis imagined a spiritless afterworld full of gray people who chose not to submit to God; eternal separation from the Lord’s love represented a punishment as tragic as any that could be devised.
  — By Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 21 Sep. 2017
• Twilight has fallen on the venerable American trickster, who in our Trumpian afterworld of alternative facts has come to seem more sordid than subversive.
  — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Such a discovery adds to growing indications of an association among many cultures of cannabis with the afterworld and death, says Mark Merlin, professor of botany at the University of Hawaii, who was not involved in conducting this study.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 12 June 2019

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