Example sentences for: late-

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

  • For a thousand years, Kyoto served as the cultural and spiritual capital of Japanese civilization, the home of its revered emperors after the Nara period from the end of the 8th century up to the Meiji Restoration in the late-19th century.

  • Up-and-coming challenger to undisputed champion to complete basket case in the span of two decades: The saga of the Japanese economy looks more and more like a late-1940s boxing melodrama--though one imagines that if this were Hollywood, the producers would demand that Japan ultimately get up off the canvas and retake the title.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Foreign-affairs analyst Edward Luttwak has illustrated the phenomenon as it pertains to the manufacture of late-Marxist apparel:


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