Example sentences for: latterly

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

  • 1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

  • Despite his long residence abroad, Hall was self-consciously American and, latterly, all too ready to cede authority to the British in matters of English.

  • If you’re thinking of looking for it, don’t — the famous Spandau prison was razed to the ground to make way for the building of a community center after the death in 1987 of its last (and latterly sole) inmate, convicted war-criminal Rudolf Hess.


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