Late

//leɪt//

"Late" in a Sentence (42 examples)

What keeps you up so late?

Too late.

I was late to school.

It is never too late to learn.

Better late than never.

It seems to me that the train is late.

You must be a late riser.

How do you account for your being late?

You won't be late, will you?

All you have to do is apologize for being late.

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The seedlings appeared to be coming along nicely until a late frost killed them.

The meeting is convened for late morning.

It was getting late and I was tired.

Late Latin is less fully inflected than classical Latin.

The flowers were late in blooming because of the prolonged cold weather.

Panos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the excuse of being in hospital for most of the night.

The heavy snow made all the trains late.

The power company suspended late fees during the pandemic.

I'm late, honey. Could you buy a test?

I am very worried. I am never late.

Her late husband had left her well provided for.

Mary was entitled to the crown by her late father’s testament.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

Mark’s late wife, Gemma, was an educator as well. Russian literature.

“He is not my ‘late husband’. He is my husband,” she said, before discussing how the couple had managed to retain their independent identities while together.

the late bishop of London

the late administration

By Edvvard Reynoldes, late Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inne: And now Rector of the Church of Braunſton in Northamptonſhire.

the late war

OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter, Haſt thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon: Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale, Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare, Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?

Lancaster bore him—such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother[…]

At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on late as usual.

We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.

Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.

The Hendersons will all be there / Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair / What a scene!

Linda Smith, late of 13 Oxford Street.

He ſhall doe this, or elſe I doe recant / The pardon that I late pronounced heere.

Tears of the widower, when he sees ⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals, ⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels Her place is empty, fall like these; […]

We describe a recently recognized disease entity, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE). LATE neuropathological change (LATE-NC) is defined by a stereotypical TDP-43 proteinopathy in older adults, with or without coexisting hippocampal sclerosis pathology.

The clinical entity LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy) has recently emerged.

The framework of LATE would account for the pathogenetic impact of limbic TDP-43 proteinopathy as a driver of amnestic dementia, either together with comorbid typical AD changes or as a distinct feature.

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