Example sentences for: late-

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

  • Wandering around (you can stroll over the entire island in a few hours) you’ll find the Loyalist Cottage, a late-18th-century settler’s home, as well as several simple churches, including the oldest Anglican church in the Bahamas, St. John’s.

  • The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.

  • T he grey-green Danube cuts straight through the heart of the city — neatly separating the ancient cobblestone streets of Buda from the late-19th-century boulevards of Pest.

  • That's one lesson of Hope in a Jar , a history of American beauty culture from the late-19 th to the mid-20 th century, a period when the pursuit of improved looks was transformed from a matter of folk recipes whispered from woman to woman to a multibillion dollar industry.

  • O rientalism and Culture and Imperialism are unquestionably incendiary, but they are also permanent and exemplary works of late-20 th -century criticism, in no small part because they invite so much argument, because for all the intellectual authority they project they remain open, vulnerable, provisional.


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