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come after in time, as a result
A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake -
be the successor (of)
Will Charles succeed to the throne?
Carter followed Ford
How To Use come after In A Sentence
- But she was advertising from the piano bench and specializing in private sessions to augment her income after her musical workday.
- When she said she was 'debilitated' at havin 'to give us ham and toast that was funny enough, but what come afterwards was funnier. Thankful's Inheritance
- If my father had been drinking, he might interpret 'nothing' as a smart-aleck answer and come after me. Times, Sunday Times
- She should have been here two hours ago so she's evidently decided not to come after all.
- Westgate says that she came into the company, and scolded at and called her husband, whereupon I, took her husband's part, telling her it was an unbeseeming thing for her to come after him to the tavern, and rail after that rate. History of American Women
- The preliminary growth figures come after a 2.2 per cent shrinkage in the first quarter and are worse than government forecasts of a 4.4 per cent decline. Times, Sunday Times
- We owe it to those who bore the burden and paid the price before us, and we also owe it to those who will come after us.
- In the forest the woodchopper comes first; on the fertile prairies the granger is the pioneer; but on the long, stretching uplands of the far West it is the men who guard and follow the horned herds that prepare the way for the settlers who come after. The Cattle Country of the Far West
- But if you set foot in Delphi, if you send any of your little flunkies after any of my people, I'll come after you.
- Naked bone, such as antlers become after velvet is shed, cannot function in heat transmission because their blood supply is lost.