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How to use belated in a sentence

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To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief.
Or have I just revealed myself as the idiotic beneficiary of a belated April Fool prank?
Also a belated 81st birthday is extended to Maggie McGee from her family and friends.
So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect.
I'm debating whether that should count as a belated Friday entry or an early Tuesday one.
It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch.
That went on most of the evening, although we broke for dinner and for more belated presents as the weather got steadily worse.
The couple intend to take a belated honeymoon in South America before the fleet sets off on its next leg around Cape Horn.
It was a belated birthday present from her family after Alice turned 100 in July.
His belated embrace of the me-too politics of health care may have been prompted by political expediency.
In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
Along with the big price tag came a belated recognition that a strapped U.S. could not bear the burdens alone.
Declan is the principal of Mount Sion Primary School and his family and friends wish him a belated happy birthday.
In a belated move, the education authorities decided to crack down on teaching practices that are harming the neutrality of education.
Kris and I went over to my parents' house last night for a belated birthday party for my sister.
Many people would still agree with him, even though the registration of land has been introduced in a belated attempt to unjumble the jumble.
After today's game Duff plans to enjoy a belated birthday meal back in Aberdeen with his parents and girlfriend.
There may be belated Christmas refreshments after the meeting and to welcome in the New Year.
So we wandered in mellow mood out into the afternoon sunshine for the trip home and a belated siesta.
Apologies followed, and at five to three the belated ceremony commenced to the relief of all concerned.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The occasional bleat of a belated automobile on the drive below came up to me raucously.
Here belated sparrows drank or splashed their dusty feathers, and the parrot watched them crookedly.
A belated March blizzard was slapping at the panes and cuffing the house-corners.
It was pleasant to be petted and spoiled by favorite cousins and stuffed with belated sweets by unfavorite ones.
Still does it tear belated, unassuaged, In wreck about the Mind's aspiring fanes.
When the nurse came in with the belated ammonia, she found K. making an arbitrary ruling, and Sidney looking up at him mutinously.
The woods were still and the bark of a belated squirrel going home from forage broke the silence with a seeming of noisiness.
In the first of them we were treated to a somewhat belated utterance in opposition to vitalism.
On the day of the funeral the belated ships of Whitney and Wollaston arrived.
Dr plummer was just about to make a communication when I made my belated entry.
They had penetrated the mists of alcohol, and stirred a belated contrition.
And still more of this belated spring will gladden the eye in the florist's window.
It was like a florescence of that dear belated creature whose mind had been awakened by his affection.
In his sixty-third summer there was a belated blooming in Auld Jock's soul.
Only then did he make a belated reply to culver's statement.
This belated arousal of the hunting instinct seemed to make almost another man of him.
The belated arrival of the Glengarries was pre-empted when they were enfiladed by the riflemen and forced to join in the general retreat.
The belated patients and pilgrims had arrived during this alert.
On Friday, Manjhi had dropped in at Sadhu's residence to take part in a belated Makar Sankranti feast.
Solomon Islander inability to get along produced a civil war from 1998 to 2003 and belated foreign intervention.
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