Example sentences for: posthumous

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

  • A posthumous profile of Dodi Fayed says he was childish, profligate, unreliable, paranoid, and drug-using.

  • "Lawrence Olivier in a posthumous revival of Hamlet ."-- Leslie Goodman-Malamuth

  • He may be trying to protect himself against posthumous revelations by Seymour Hersh.

  • Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.

  • Yes, in Keats' poems, life has a dreamy quality--but this is not a gorgeous swoon so much as the sense that somewhere, out of sight, we have already lived our actual lives, and that the life we are forced to feel through now is a posthumous remembrance of that earlier life, full of pain and loss.


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