Example sentences for: belated

How can you use “belated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His first (belated) taste of cyberspace came in 1991, when he connected to the WELL, the Bay Area bulletin-board system.

  • But there were others, too: His decision to support NAFTA and his belated intervention in Bosnia.

  • This week's anti-American stories included a full-pager Wednesday headlined "Once Again Cuba Doesn't Lie," about a belated CIA admission in the Los Angeles Times that Thomas Willard Ray, shot down over Cuba in an American fighter bomber in 1961, was on a covert CIA mission.

  • In early March, Cressey wrote Rice and Hadley that at a belated wedding reception at Tarnak Farms for one of Bin Ladin's sons, the al Qaeda leader had read a new poem gloating about the attack on the Cole.

  • For this "once-bespectacled feminist who recently turned 51," gushes the Times , "her new role as cover girl is merely belated proof of her transformation--no snorting--into one of the most revered and glamorous First Ladies ever."


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