How to Use postmortem in a Sentence

postmortem

noun

• A postmortem showed that the man had been poisoned.
• Party leaders are conducting a postmortem of the election to try to find out what went wrong.
• Her postmortem voice-over is more than an avant-garde gimmick.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• In a project postmortem, teams often look at what worked and what didn’t work.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• She had been stabbed to death and a train had run over her body postmortem, the release said.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• Free of life’s burdens, Weems seems at ease with her postmortem state.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
• Not surprisingly, his postmortem spins it as a great gift to new users.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Oct. 2021
• Kamau added that at least four had died of starvation, though postmortems still had to be done.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• For the first few minutes of the postmortem period, brain cells may survive.
  — Jeremy N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
• This comes up a lot in forensic shows, where sorting out the pre-, peri-, and postmortem injuries is like half the show.
  — Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
• Running bits, good advice, and fun guests brought more joy than any Oscars postmortem could.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• Police are waiting for a postmortem to confirm if the victim was pregnant.
  — Swati Gupta and Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
• The fish had a bruise from a boat strike near its head, but scientists aren’t sure whether that was a fatal blow or a postmortem injury.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
• Additional charges of rape and gang rape were added following a postmortem.
  — Esha Mitra, CNN, 18 Aug. 2020
• However, the hole in the skull could have also been made postmortem as a type of ritual practice.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2021
• All agreed that a postmortem of the redistricting process was necessary.
  — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2021
• It can only be diagnosed postmortem.
  — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
• In the postmortem on small businesses that didn’t make it, cash flow is overwhelmingly listed as the cause of death.
  — Tony Ward, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• These are being discussed in the postmortem over Terra’s collapse.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• The blog statement serves as a postmortem of the hack, which the company said happened Monday.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
• His postmortem gave five major reasons for the loss or changes needed to ensure better outcomes in the future.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
• To study the postmortem brain, researchers collected brain tissue samples from brain surgery patients.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2021
• Use data to test assumptions before greenlighting projects, not just to write postmortems.
  — Matthew Henick, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
• Readers were ready for a postmortem of that brutal presidential campaign.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
• In more than half the cases a cause of death is never determined despite a rigorous amount of postmortem testing.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• In more than 90% of cases, opioids were detected in bodies postmortem.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• Five more people who died there were not tested for the virus after their death or still have postmortem results pending, Impink said.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2020
• Bauer was doing a postmortem with pitching coach Derek Johnson when Stephenson launched.
  — John Fay, The Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2020
• Maybe 1,000 listeners tuned in for the fall Sunday postmortems.
  — Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
• Belichick has to own that, despite the defense offered for his offense in his postmortem presser Monday.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020