Example sentences for: posterity

How can you use “posterity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He will live into posterity on the strength of the five films he made with the great German director Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo and particularly Aguirre, Wrath of God ; his Aguirre, the languidly nihilistic martinet who leads an Amazon expedition toward nothingness, is one of the great human monsters in movie history.

  • "The message the House sent to our posterity is that Mr. Clinton's behavior is immoral and wrong," he argued.

  • They made it all by depriving themselves in the name of thrift and prudence and preparing for the needs of posterity.

  • Yet, as you eavesdrop on him in recordings he left for posterity, like Dorothy peeking behind the screen at the Wizard, you find not a giant but a fearful and uncertain man with a very big voice.

  • Here he entertained the movie star Marion Davies, his mistress for 30 years, and famous guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, and the photographer Herman Mankiewicz, who recorded life at San Simeon for posterity.


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