Latter

//ˈlæt.ə(ɹ)//

"Latter" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.

Love is above money. The latter can't give as much happiness as the former.

I prefer the former plan to the latter.

The latter half of the drama was a little dull.

The latter half of the game was very exciting.

The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.

Of soccer and rugby, I prefer the latter.

Of these two opinions, I prefer the latter to the former.

The latter will continue to develop along their own paths according to the needs of their own speakers.

The former is inferior to the latter in some respect.

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The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).

On sale next to dried fish and chicken feet were rats and bats (the latter's wings in a pile like leather scraps, also for sale), plus cut-up pigs and monkeys, their faces intact.

the difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior

the latter part of the century

In his latter years my dad became very absent-minded.

Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania […]?

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