How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

noun
  • Does he believe in an afterlife?
  • These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
    Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Those experts are the cast of CBS' Ghosts, who have some knowledge of what goes on in the afterlife.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This gives them all hope that death isn’t the end, and that The Midnight Club will continue even in the afterlife.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
  • In the Islamic faith, the 40th day after a death marks the deceased’s soul passing from the earth to the afterlife.
    Sara Mhaidli, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This is what businesses like Shein hope for us: the afterlife is a store.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2022
  • The animals may have been buried to recreate the gardens for the deceased in the afterlife.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • After you get done telling ghost stories, lighten up the mood with this jam about the afterlife.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The body was seen as too sacred, and necessary to preserve for the afterlife.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The amulets represent a wide range of Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Many fans hoped to hear Houdini speak from the afterlife.
    Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The Squirrel Nut Zippers had quite a heyday in the midst of the '90 swing dance era, and one of their most famous songs is a gleeful ode to the afterlife.
    Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Some of his last courses focused on death, dying and the afterlife.
    Cathi Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Last week's episode led to even more questions about Flower, the hippie ghost who fans thought moved on in the afterlife at the end of last season.
    The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The co-burials could have been meant to provide a meal and companionship in the afterlife.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The fans turn slow overhead in the dim rooms of empire’s afterlife, and the shades of British accountants work through the heat and the day’s ledgers and their latest letter to Martha.
    Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And a pricey piece of technology will soon be joining Steve Jobs in the afterlife.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Girard’s ideas are strange, but their afterlife is stranger still.
    Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The film flashes to the Master and Margarita in the afterlife, reunited and free.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • On the question of God and an afterlife, John has remained noncommittal in the past.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • The show explores the mysteries of the afterlife with high-tech equipment and overviews of the rich histories of some of the world's most tragic deaths.
    Briana Richert, EW.com, 11 July 2022
  • The goal had been to achieve eternal life in a virtual afterlife: the Heaven runtime.
    Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That gave him the idea to use the 10 Courts as a kind of Trojan Horse to get people talking about death, the afterlife and other deeper concepts.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Its centerpiece is an animation of the dead king’s journey to the afterlife, as imagined from the text known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, Luther and Klaus wake up in the afterlife together, after Luther's murder and Klaus' suicide at the end of episode 9.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • Twins have a unique connection on Earth, but does that bond extend into the afterlife?
    Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The afterlife is in the litany, the repetition, the mesothelioma that lay dormant, decades later killing Sharpe’s brother.
    Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023
  • His adventures take him to the circus, the Army, the depths of the sea, and the afterlife in this impressive Oscar-winning masterpiece.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Not even the afterlife can separate the love shared between Nick Jonas and the object of his affection in this 2021 release.
    Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023

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