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

  • By the 17th century, Évora had lost influence and development came to a halt, preserving the city’s distinctive 16th-century palácios for posterity.

  • 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.

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


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