Sentence examples for the afterthought from inspiring English sources
noun
A reflection after an act; a later or subsequent thought, action, or expedient.
- She packed her sandals only as an afterthought, but she was glad she did.
Sometimes the prescription is just the afterthought.
Latin Americans complain that they have become the "afterthought" Mr. Bush had deplored.
"Five years ago, with few exceptions, children were the afterthought in terms of drug development," Dr. Kearns said.
"Pakistan the afterthought" was the theme very late one night when I visited the home of Pakistan's finance minister, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
The Romanée-Conti vineyard has had the same shape, including the afterthought at the southern end, for at least 600 years, maybe longer.
The surprise is a dry but appealing Earl Grey chocolate cake, and a smattering of peanuts, which seem like the afterthought of a compulsively generous hostess.
In the "Afterthoughts" to Davidson (1986), he also concluded that his view departs too far from the neo-classical coherence theory to be named one.
Even the afterthought-like tract on calculus has been quoted frequently; most notably by the Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin.
The bottom plinth, the processional path, was the major afterthought.
The first thought engendered the first afterthought.
The morning paper might as well be called The Daily Afterthought.
