How to Use come after in a Sentence

come after

phrasal verb
Definition of come afternext
  • But the rest of the boos mostly came after foul calls the crowd — and Boston’s bench — took umbrage with.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The proposal comes after a series of scandals at City Hall.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The work stoppage comes after multiple rounds of bargaining.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The approval came after a tense bargaining process that included the threat of worse offers to come from the troubled plane maker’s CEO.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That came after the first two months where his ERA sat at 2.14.
    — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • The Swift nod came after the singer threw her hat in the ring to endorse the Swift/Walz ticket.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The deal comes after the union reached an agreement on Wednesday with Ford.
    — Michael Wayland, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The outlet said that the scan came after Krayzie Bone had been coughing up blood.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Six more people would die in the days to come after taking Tylenol.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • The ones that come after days of misery for your child: the fever, the cough, the runny nose, and trouble breathing.
    — Emily Nadal, Parents, 20 July 2023
  • The layoffs amount to about 20% of the newsroom, and come after the paper cut 74 newsroom staffers just a few months ago.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Stick’s goal-line fumble in the second quarter came after a 13-play, 49-yard drive.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Friday’s strikes came after weeks of warnings from the United States.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The impasse comes after two years in which UPS posted record profits.
    — Jason Miller, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
  • Ahead of the close of that deal, eOne laid off 10% of its employees; that came after Hasbro cut eOne’s workforce by 20% in June.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Kim's update from the night came after her sister Kourtney shared her own roundup from the event on Thursday.
    — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The second score came after Jacksonville’s Quinton Atkins grabbed a fumble in midair and returned it 45 yards to the Boaz 5-yard-line.
    — al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • That came after the first pounding storm of the season led to the partial collapse of the tower, exposing the wood that holds up the golden dome.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the team’s major signings came after Christmas.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • His son Paul Schmidt said his death, which was not widely reported at the time, came after a brief illness.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Is there anyone else worth trying to sign or is this upgrade going to come after cuts?
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • The company’s revenue rose in the third quarter of 2023, but that came after two quarters of declines.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The tell-all book’s upcoming arrival in bookstores and on Amazon comes after a bit of a delay.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Based on those patterns, the model can take a short snippet of audio or a text prompt and predict what should come next, and then what comes after that, and so on.
    — Adam Clair, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • That comes after sales fell 1.1% in January, dragged down in part by inclement weather.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 15 May 2024
  • The final air strike came after the Chargers struggled to find their alignment when Green Bay’s offense went with no huddle.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The return to restraint comes after last term’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade brought with it protests, death threats, and polls showing record low trust in the high court.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
  • The decisions to cut back on costs come after a review of the hospital’s finances over the past several months.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • What would come after that, however, was an open question.
    — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The strong prospect of a female chief of state in Mexico comes after years of political gains for women.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023

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