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How to use behindhand in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word behindhand? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Because I'm behindhand on the particular thing in question I've thought of just letting it go.
Everything is behindhand for the opening ceremonies of Thursday, but as they are not the important ones, little annoyance is expressed.
May the whole Buddhist world be not behindhand in following this noble example.
It was expected, too, because the Commission was behindhand in implementing the commitments specified in the 1997 Directive.
Lawyers – to take a LinkedIn type at random – have never been short of work or behindhand in making useful contacts.
Before Iran's revolution, Turkey was behindhand on practically every count foreign direct investment, income per head, GDP growth.
Implementation of the mid-term evaluation system is also behindhand, having about the same delay as the CSF programmes.
But instead of waving a baton he turns a beam of rosy light upon any region that is running ahead of the rest, and a beam of blue light upon those who are behindhand.
To our credit the British were not behindhand in promoting music.
However, several countries are still seriously behindhand with high illiteracy rates particularly in rural areas.
He's just so bossy that he seems not only to have made the work but somehow to have used up the perusal and valuing of it as well, leaving my participation behindhand.
And was his overburdened K. G. B. paymaster, laboring in some squalid East End flat with the blinds down, perhaps behindhand with his photographing?
He must, therefore, attend to what the priest is saying and doing, so as to be ready to answer at the correct time, and be rather beforehand than behindhand with his ministrations.
Nor, for that matter, is it stated that women should be denied an equal say in decisions of state. Saudi Arabia, it should be stressed, is exceptionally behindhand.
Examples from Classical Literature
We find it so difficult to make the place pay that we are behindhand with the rent.
Seeing this, the captain of the Elizabeth, not to be behindhand, did the same.
It was his sixty-sixth birthday, and it reminded him that he was behindhand with his great work.
An important contract had got behindhand and they were working overtime.
Of course, in this respect, we have not been behindhand either.
Then the Englishmen, not to be behindhand in the fray, came to the rescue.
He got behindhand with his rent, and his landlady has given him notice.
Nor were the Japanese behindhand in accepting the challenge.
Goddard and others, were a good deal behindhand in knowledge of the world, but she would soon shew them how every thing ought to be arranged.
The two despots of the Morea were not behindhand in this respect.
And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily.
Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behindhand.
Can you think your friend behindhand in these sort of considerations?
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