The coconut was barely detectable, the glaze a little thin and weedy, and the biscuits on the side seemed a bland afterthought.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

The garage was an afterthought.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

December 4th, 2005 at 8: 47 pm wwallace says: afterthought is corrupt and incompetent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » McCain: Murtha “Has Become Too Emotional”] Reference

While I wouldn`t use the word afterthought, I was keen to see the media coverage associated with the launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple iTunes in Oz] Reference

If Web Notes feels like an afterthought, that is because it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Office Live Workspace (Beta) Finally Goes Live. Still Needs Work.] Reference

"A little manic-depressive, maybe," he admitted in afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [oldcharliebrown's Journal] Reference

"It's like a big show, and the game is an afterthought, which is totally ESPN.".    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Blind citizens will not allow themselves to be thought of as a squeezed-in afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Books: Equal access to knowledge] Reference

While I wouldn ` t use the word afterthought, I was keen to see the media coverage associated with the launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple iTunes in Oz] Reference

I'd like to have that kind of afterthought, I think to myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising] Reference

"Don't drink all the tea," she said, and then, as a kind of afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tulips For Augusta]

As a kind of afterthought I focused the dueling pistol on the woman and fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neutron Star]

I LOVE the writing on the "afterthought" cake up until the "and Al" part, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [They'll NEVER Notice] Reference

I've seen this in a number of films - the "afterthought" disability or something like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frida Kahlo -- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth] Reference

And, if you can't already tell, I resent that I am part of this "afterthought" simply by virtue of my anatomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Women Be Grateful or Angry?] Reference

The original Gould report found mistakes at all levels, with the voter consistently treated as an "afterthought".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

They tried to talk me into going to Austin with them (them includes the "afterthought" guy, Michael) this weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Coffee, More Coffee!!!] Reference

The plot, which ebbs and flows, is...almost an afterthought in places although perhaps 'afterthought' it too harsh a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

"It's like a big show, and the game is an afterthought, which is totally ESPN.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obviously, You're Not a Golfer] Reference

One W+K insider went so far as to say digital is "afterthought" at the agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [ClickZ News Blog] Reference

And yet it would seem that she must be an "afterthought" if she is to be superior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates] Reference

The name Perl, along with it's definition, was actually a bit of an "afterthought".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials] Reference

Eleanor's shoulder; then, as a kind of afterthought, he bought a crimson tassel for Kate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Readjustment] Reference

But after all -- I say this as a kind of afterthought in conclusion -- why bother with success at all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Fiction] Reference

The clock is described as an "afterthought," with awkward date and time controls and no way of setting an alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] Reference

Queen of the afterthought aka M.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cycleanalysis: Buy Two and Call Me in the Morning] Reference

"afterthought" as political leaders wrestle with the current economic crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference

A kind of afterthought and even something of a distraction from the trilogy's fundamental debt to Shelley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference

It can't be addressed as an afterthought or an irrelevance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: How (Not) To Win] Reference

And then, not quite as an afterthought, "Mousavi, we support you!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anyone but Ahmadinejad] Reference

Foreign policy is an afterthought; imperial ambitions, unthinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Self-Absorbed Dragon] Reference

For religious zionists and ultra-nationalists, Gaza was an afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE END OF A DREAM] Reference

Her career is an afterthought: a support system for her plastic surgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolut-Ly Fabulous] Reference

Since 1949, the Republic of China had existed at the periphery of history, an Asian afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spiritual Power Of Democracy] Reference

(The Apollo DVD feels like an afterthought — footage of a solid performance, annoyingly edited.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston’s Soul Savior] Reference

She in Vanity Fair, he with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric -- criminal justice was almost an afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobbitt Fever] Reference

Well, when you go back to the country's founding and the constitutional convention, it was kind of an afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choosing a Veep] Reference

After all, the last thing allies like Japan and South Korea want is for an issue to be treated like an afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vote Heard 'Round The World'] Reference

The thriving NFL needs the all-star boost less than any other league and it comes postseason as a kind of afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: The Problem With All-Star Games] Reference