Example sentences for: posterity

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

  • Right from the beginning, from her first college letters home, Powell seemed to be writing for posterity.

  • The man who spruced up the shaggy president for posterity was Mathew Brady, and a brush and comb were the least of his tools of transformation, as a comprehensive exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington makes abundantly clear.

  • Seeking to preserve the chaos of the Net for posterity is Brewster Kahle, a man with a mission, a server, and a lot of magnetic tape.

  • Mailer was not a critic of Southern literature, but he privately wondered whether posterity might not judge John Jakes a better novelist than Faulkner, sources close to Mailer tell Mailer.

  • However, they would have seen a structure with a veneer of splendid color and decorated with magnificently carved sculptures; not to mention a strong wooden roof now lost to posterity.


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