Results, often of something bad

Usage examples of aftermath.

Iraq War and its aftermath are a growing number of pro-democracy Iraqi bloggers, whose on-the-scene reports describe a more hopeful, if far from ideal, reality.

The single shot, though unexpected in this quiet neighborhood, had no aftermath until Bozo decided to give the next command.

Act as Sister Heriburg had acted, when they had fled from Darre in the aftermath of the earthquake.

In the aftermath, the State of Texas went its own way as the Republic of Texas, Gwillam Forte was enshrined in the Texas pantheon along with Stephen Austin and Sam Houston, and his vast estate was divided among his numerous ex-wives and their progeny.

The Filipinos were on their way to Balanga like the rest of us when they were stopped by some ginks who were part of an aftermath reaction force.

From the avenue of lime-trees showers of round, yellow leaves were flying through the air in tossing, eddying circles, and strewing the wet road and soaked aftermath of the hayfield with a clammy carpet.

Appleton Manor had passed, but in its aftermath a frigid, howling wind gusted, creating of the newly fallen snow such deep drifts that Jennet knew she must abandon all hope of an immediate departure for Kent.

The message was for Darius, he knew, but Darius was still asleep this morning, having guarded Kaf throughout the Night of No Moon and having dealt with the aftermath during the following day.

She had captured him, perhaps in that first glance, and both were content to live the aftermath, to cut it down to size, to reduce it to liveable dimensions.

Every expert had warned that looting would pose a crucial challenge in the aftermath of the war and had suggested specific measures to prevent it.

Maybe, he thought, this reckless march was the aftermath of defeat, a kind of shocked reaction in which a man lashed out blindly, and this daft expedition under the half moon was undoubtedly blind, for Sharpe knew in his inmost soul that the unfinished business between himself and Brigadier Loup would almost cer tainly stay unfinished.

He had to acknowledge to himself, however, that he, by his love of this dark woman, had made himself highly black mailable He had known, of course, that it would all come out eventually, but he had planned to be comfortably dead by that time, and the hell with the aftermath.

The skin around the wrist was also blue and puffy, and on the underside of the forearm there appeared to be the aftermath of a petechial rash: at some point the boy had begun to hemorrhage into his skin.

The detailed account that don Juan made me render as the aftermath of each state of non-ordinary reality was a recapitulation of the experience.

THE AFTERMATH, while Earth glowed with simmering atomic fires, Segundo Harkonnen gathered the mismatched remnants of his assault force.