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    Use "belated" in a sentence

    belated example sentences

    belated


    1. them into belated action, giving them common cause with


    2. In the morning I was up early but so was Helen I gave her the belated Christmas present that I had brought home with me and she gave me hers


    3. “Touching, but don’t you think your concern is a little belated?”


    4. and in sheltering doorways to wait for belated cars; but the holiday


    5. Along the deep-rutted road in front a belated lumber-wagon


    6. The result for both President Kerr and Chancellor Strong was loss of their jobs, and the belated knowledge that the only “compromise” with revolution is surrender


    7. )5 In 2003, the New York Times, in a belated attempt at damage control, asked the Pulitzer Board to consider whether the prize should be


    8. The principal made a belated rally


    9. “I asked you to look into the Harbinger’s belated arrival at Aleator


    10. Bill: Perhaps I owe Michael a very belated apology for doubting his role in this sordid affair and then again maybe I don't owe Michael an apology

    11. Well Mister Bill, I'm going to close this very belated letter and send it on its way


    12. In June that same year, Claudia and I went on a belated honeymoon


    13. force, many of Stallman's colleagues saw it as a belated bid for


    14. "GNU" prefix as a belated quest for credit, Murdock saw it differently


    15. Better to be taking belated action than none at all


    16. belated personal effects established


    17. In a belated attempt to justify this debacle, which cost the lives of many


    18. As a belated birthday present, my brother surprised me by remodeling my bathroom


    19. The open, countrywide violence erupting in America was simply its belated catching up to the rest


    20. It was a week after her birthday, thus when she went to school, al of her friends wished her a happy belated birthday

    21. “It’s a belated welcome-to-our-neighbourhood gift,” Jessica said as she snuggled with the wriggling puppy


    22. “We’re supposed to be grateful you showed up for a belated house warming, and you didn’t even bring us a gift? You happen to visit in the middle of a crisis where you don’t even help? I don’t know why you bothered at all


    23. belated type or imitation occasionally shows itselfeven to-


    24. That Fun Run actually started a couple of us on a rather belated


    25. Above the gaiety of the crowds one could hear the shrill cry of some belated newsboys, calling an "Extra Special"--the only superlative left to one of the more enterprising papers whose every issue was an "Extra


    26. He gave her a Gucci scarf—"a belated birthday present"—and confirmed his luncheon date with her


    27. Happy belated Father’s Day, wherever you are


    28. Thus, we begin to make “a belated” decision based on them, and not based on the Perception of instants, during which the very fact of “our” choice was already fulfilled without our conscious participation according to the rezonation principle


    29. "Well you know me! And I've got a couple of cans of cider in the fridge if you fancy a belated celebration?" Richard smiled and went all coy


    30. He had some belated induction planning to do!

    31. But much to his surprise, Llewellyn accepted the belated invitation with something approaching alacrity


    32. And one weal, belated warning or a prediction or foreboding does to change the course of events enough to save living humans from the unseen undead evil that surrounds them and lives inside them, and has done so ever since they came into the world as innocent babies


    33. Then the plaintive brainwashed boy utters the last part of his statement which is a belated apology, and a complete reversal of the actual hidden truth


    34. his knees and yelled, a belated warning that drowned in the


    35. How would their belated confrontation play out? She had no way of knowing


    36. It fell out that he was thus engaged in a season when crowds were few, and belated women few, and when his affairs in general were so unprosperous as to awaken a strong suspicion in his breast that Mrs


    37. twilight, and the belated lighter?


    38. “I have chosen a dark day to write a belated thank you,” Reagan says in a letter to Margaret Thatcher on April 30, 1975


    39. Soon after their belated dinner, the grandfather was seen climbing up the Alp


    40. Then they strolled out, window shopping, infinitely slow, watching for belated recognition, for phoned-ahead alerts, but seeing nothing

    41. The sling, he’d discovered courtesy of Owl’s rather belated research, had enjoyed greater longevity than any other missile weapon in human history


    42. more than ten times, and each time it was either a belated


    43. observed two belated passengers hurrying down the platform


    44. And, for that matter, as a belated reprisal for the Charisian prisoners who were sent to Zion for Punishment year before last


    45. The elderly ladies of the committee in whose hands rested the responsibility for the whole bazaar rustled in as importantly as full-rigged ships, hurried the belated young back rooms where the refreshments were being laid out


    46. new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an


    47. Which reminds me … I brought along a belated Christmas gift


    48. It didn’t smell any more or less weird than Trish’s house had probably smelled to Mandy, or Mandy’s to Nell, and she wanted to call them all up with a belated invitation to spend the night, so that she wouldn’t have to cry alone, but she hadn’t spoken to Nell or Mandy or Trish in a long time, and all she had now was her father, and later, in the chiropractor’s houseboat on the far side of the 405, her mom, and the two Valiums she’d smuggled home in her laundry bag


    49. But as she turned away, a belated shame broke over him


    50. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house
























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    Synonyms for "belated"

    belated late tardy delayed impeded detained overdue

    "belated" definitions

    after the expected or usual time; delayed