Example sentences for: late-

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

  • (Parenthetically, I agree with your Monday correlation of the late-'80s recession and the cuts in newsroom budgets with public journalism's boom.

  • of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the late-19 th -century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.

  • John McCain, who is allergic to their blandishments and threats, just as he is allergic to the cozy, sleazy compromises of this dark city, just as he is allergic to the mendacious hypocrisies of politics as it is practiced in late-20 th century America.

  • Inside, see Schlüter’s Baroque marble pulpit (1703) and a late-Gothic fresco of the Dance of Death (1484) in the tower hall.


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