AFTERTHOUGHT


Meaning of AFTERTHOUGHT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

add

Or maybe, she added as an afterthought , it was a boy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The tiles looked out of place, as if they had been an afterthought .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All too often, lighting is an afterthought superimposed on the final decoration instead of being planned from the start.

Having said good-bye, he had paused as if in an afterthought .

He offered it to Coffin, not as a prize, but more as an afterthought .

I was frisked, my belt and Seiko taken from me, and, as an afterthought , kicked in the ribs.

In her editorial Vivienne Van Someren suggests that arrangements for job sharers are often an afterthought .

In Mission Valley, housing was an afterthought .

Too late and the greeting is grunted as an afterthought as you both pass only feet away from each other.

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