Sample Sentences forposterity (editor-reviewed)
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We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity.posterity = future generations
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She recorded her family history for posterity, hoping her great-grandchildren would one day read it.
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She preserved his research notes for posterity, knowing their value might grow over time.
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I was hoping someone might write it down for posterity, but no one did.† (source)
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Because when Fate hands something down to posterity, it does so behind its back.† (source)
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She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.† (source)
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The tabloids have dubbed it for posterity.† (source)
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Let me set the scene, because now it really is for posterity.† (source)
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Any soldier committing an act of violence would instantly be recorded for posterity.† (source)
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For posterity.† (source)
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One more time, for posterity.† (source)
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Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch 'em for breakfast; the Journal doesn't care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.† (source)
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What if they tell me this curving line branching into three oval shapes is a pomegranate and that my mother was wishing me fertility and posterity?† (source)
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They were executed, and their fate was recorded in the Party histories, a warning to posterity.† (source)
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.† (source)
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"Since you have preserved my narration," said he, "I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity."† (source)
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