How to Use the hereafter in a Sentence

the hereafter

noun

• They’re hounded into the hereafter.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
• He, like the objects, is stuck between here and the hereafter, and is mourning a lost love just as a new one introduces herself.
  — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
• The story takes place during the course of one evening, in a hazy spiritual plane where anguished souls are caught between life and the hereafter.
  — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
• Rather than select a personalized heaven, Luke has been waiting 67 years for his Joanie to join him in the hereafter.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2025
• It’s set in the near future (or, possibly, the hereafter), when eternal life has become a real possibility.
  — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 17 Apr. 2026