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Example sentences for "after some"

  • After some time we came across a party of Ibrahim’s cavalry, which had bivouacked at no great distance from us.

  • After some time, however, it becomes understood that one of the beasts has reluctantly consented to take the lead, and he accordingly advances for that purpose.

  • After some months of toilsome travel, in which they had to cross many a morass and mountain stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon.

  • The friar, now left wholly to himself, after some deliberation, gave his award.

  • At length, after some weeks of travel, severe even with all these appliances, Hernando Pizarro arrived before the city of Pachacamac.

  • After some time, they left their place of refuge from the weather, and mingled with the concourse.

  • Kit found it, at last, after some trouble, and pausing at the door to take breath that he might enter with becoming decency, passed into the chapel.

  • After some hours, he was awakened by a sudden noise, and sat up and looked about him.

  • After some time he thought that in the midst of all their shrieks he could make out the words, 'Do not tell Schippeitaro!

  • After some hours' hard labour came the time for rest, and they all flung their hammers to the ground and trooped out of the cave.

  • After some discussion, it was agreed that the pearls should be divided by lot, and that each should have his chance in the order of his age: of course, if the oldest was successful the other two would be saved the trouble of trying.

  • After some days of inquiry and research, Arthur Clennam became convinced that the case of the Father of the Marshalsea was indeed a hopeless one, and sorrowfully resigned the idea of helping him to freedom again.

  • After some delay, and several stretches of his wings which came to nothing, he soared to the drawing-rooms.

  • After some pause, a door of communication with another room was opened, and a lady entered.

  • The old man mumbling to himself, after some consideration, that Fanny had run away, went to the next room to fetch her back.

  • After some conversation on the subject it was agreed by all the interested parties to form a new company, embracing all the mines.

  • Joe, you are quite a wise boy, perhaps I can confide in you," said Felix Gussing, after some talk on other subjects.

  • After some conversation on the current war news, we retired, and I immediately proceeded to my room and wrote out this paper.

  • But some of his friends in Illinois took the matter seriously in hand, and Lincoln, after some hesitation, then formally authorized "the use of his name.

  • They would then look round for an "available" man; and among the "available" men Abraham Lincoln was easily discovered to stand foremost.

  • And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life.

  • After some time, however, I began to see that before the theory could be placed before the world in a really perfected form, it was necessary to get some independent evidence about the existence of this young actor, Willie Hughes.

  • After some delay, during which every window in the court became a blurred mass of peering faces, the door was opened by a rather rough-looking foreigner, who asked him in very bad English what his business was.

  • After some time, twelve o'clock boomed from the tall tower at Westminster, and at each stroke of the sonorous bell the night seemed to tremble.

  • After some time, he thrust away his plate and put his head in his hands.

  • Send him in," he muttered, after some moments' hesitation.

  • After some quarter of an hour's absence, he returned.

  • After some laughing, the gentleman whom he had called Quinion, said: 'And what is the opinion of Brooks of Sheffield, in reference to the projected business?

  • After some days, however, they became more and more difficult to charge, and the return on discharge was proportionately less.

  • After some negotiation, however, a protocol was signed in Paris on France's privileged position in Morocco.

  • After some delay, King John took the field in force against the enemy, who were still harassing the north-west of his territory.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "after some" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bathing; after considerable; after death; after drinking; after each; after giving; after her; after making; after partaking; after repeated; after school; after seven; after speaking; after that; after the; after them; after thinking; after time; after touching; after what has happened; afterward found; afterwards ascertained; afterwards learned; deemed proper; former navigators; hand corner