POSTERIOR in a Sentence

Learn POSTERIOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for POSTERIOR, such as:It should be added, that the foundation of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date when this paper was ...


Search Quotes from Classic Book
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of POSTERIOR
posterior
 n.  the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
 a.  located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
Classic Sentence:
1  It should be added, that the foundation of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date when this paper was found.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
2  He gathered her lovely, heavy posteriors one in each hand and pressed them in towards him in a frenzy, quivering motionless in the rain.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  I waxed old in misery and disgrace, having only one-half of my posteriors, and always remembering I was a Pope's daughter.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence:
1  The posterior leg pairs were slightly longer than those preceding it, giving the creature a pronounced trough between its 'back' and the vertically oriented front end.