Example sentences for: belated

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

  • Disassociating himself from right-wing conspirators is an admirable but "belated" move, says Al Hunt (CNN's Capital Gang ). It's too late to win hearts, believes Mara Liasson ( Fox News Sunday ). Starr's historical station will be fixed by the legal argument he ultimately marshals.

  • 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.

  • Other recent examples include the alleged off-camera tantrums had by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno over the belated discovery of the coffee videos, and yesterday's report about how somebody high up in the White House nearly throttled an ATF agent over the discovery that ATF was letting scads of assault weapons into the country.

  • Their arguments in the trial's final days are replete with desperate, belated appeals to the popular will.

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


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