How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

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  • 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
  • King Tut was buried with a passel of the seeds, to spice up the afterlife.
    — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
  • When the ritual concludes, the body is ready for the earth, the soul for the afterlife.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
  • He’s trapped not just in the afterlife but in the non-stop theatre of his own mind.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Leave it to David Bowie to make his presence known in the afterlife.
    — Fred Sahai, Billboard, 3 May 2022
  • Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • What is the afterlife of this play when Trump is no longer in office?
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Lamps were sometimes buried with the dead to light their way into the afterlife.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • 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
  • Dave Itzkoff on the strange afterlife of George Carlin.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 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
  • But that's starting to change, from video games about the afterlife to TV shows that help prepare you to pass.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Given its brief existence, the life of the show has also been very much about the afterlife of the show.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This is what businesses like Shein hope for us: the afterlife is a store.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2022
  • The fabric of human life and afterlife were, at many times, the very things Dean and Sam gave their blood, sweat, lives and tears to save.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The animals may have been buried to recreate the gardens for the deceased in the afterlife.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • What’s a wedding night in the afterlife without a few frights?
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
  • While Judaism posits belief in the afterlife, this world, the world of the living, is paramount.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • As the series progressed, Doug took on an afterlife of his own.
    — Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • In New Zealand, the spirits of the dead leap off the headland at Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • The book tells the story of the titular Mal, who navigates between the world of the living and the afterlife.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • After you get done telling ghost stories, lighten up the mood with this jam about the afterlife.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 28 Oct. 2022
  • As a devout Catholic, Joe Biden believes in the afterlife.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • So why all of this sudden belief in ghosts and an afterlife?
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Additionally, in the final moments of the movie, a close-up shot shows a glimpse of a hand that somewhat resembles Maximus' in the afterlife, though a face is never shown.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The pic gained greater momentum in its home entertainment afterlife.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024

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