shortly after

phrase

: soon after

Shortly after she hung up, the phone rang again.

Examples of shortly after in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One of them hit a railway line shortly after a train carrying European dignitaries had passed through. — Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026

Then Carl Icahn ran a proxy contest in the middle of all this that ousted the chairman in 2023 and led to CEO Francis deSouza resigning shortly after. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has found that a man who died at the county hospital shortly after being released from jail died from complications of a rare brain disease. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026

And that’s very appealing, and it was invented actually shortly after quantum physics was invented. — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for shortly after

• hereinafter
• thereinafter
• drafter
• laughter
• rafter
• hereafter
• thereafter