Sample Sentences forposthumous (auto-selected)
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The author’s final novel was released as a posthumous publication, two years after her death.posthumous = after death
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She received a posthumous award for her bravery during the rescue mission.
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Almond, who had died at twenty-one, was nominated for a posthumous medal for bravery.† (source)
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My mind flashes to the letter Nabi had given me in Kabul, his posthumous confession.† (source)
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Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.† (source)
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The posthumous powers of the late Delia, if she had any, were apparently not the sort that took effect immediately.† (source)
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Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time Dede is able to take up her own life again.† (source)
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Brad's teammates, Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, would posthumously receive the military's highest award, the Medal of Honor.† (source)
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Climbing aboard he must have been thinking of those things, while Mama, nodoubt, was thinking of the mother at Manzanar who had already received a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor on behalf of her son who'd been killed in Italy.† (source)
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There was also 'Animal Hero, Second Class,' which was conferred posthumously on the dead sheep.† (source)
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Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.† (source)
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No, but it will destroy your case against him—posthumously on both parts.† (source)
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She had lowered the ceiling and the elaborate cornice which, in one form or another, graced every room was lost to view; the walls, one paneled in brocade, were stripped and washed blue and spotted with innumerable little water-colors of fond association; the air was sweet with the fresh scent of flowers and musty potpourri; her library in soft leather covers, well-read works of poetry and piety, filled a small rosewood bookcase; the chimneypiece was covered with small personal treasures—an ivory Madonna, a plaster St. Joseph, posthumous miniatures of her three soldier brothers.† (source)
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Posthumously?† (source)
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Everyone talked about how sweet it was that she had this posthumous token of her love and she naturally did not disabuse their minds.† (source)
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Since martial law had been declared and the guards might, from a certain angle, be regarded as on active service, they were awarded posthumously the military medal.† (source)
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