Sample Sentences for
belated
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    Perhaps better than this belated offering.†  (source)
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    So I'm enjoying my belated halfway feast.†  (source)
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    And the next day, my mother called me, to invite me to a belated birthday dinner for my father.†  (source)
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    So is my belated recognition that our relationship, though generally good, was not ideal—not that night, nor any other.†  (source)
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    Belatedly, he remembered that Jen was a Baron.†  (source)
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    He means, she thought with stupid belatedness, they should all be murdered.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It would have been an opportunity, though belated, to stand behind the silo—to make her nightly signal that it was safe for Edgar to come home.†  (source)
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    Behind Kile, Henri belatedly joined in the laughter.†  (source)
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    And of course I did, although with thick-witted belatedness.†  (source)
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    Seeing this woman at the commissary, he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a brilliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder: Juanita hadn't really changed much at all since those days, just grown into herself.†  (source)
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    Belatedly, she realized how much the sky had lightened.†  (source)
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    Deeper and more painful than his belated concern for Denver or Sethe, scorching his soul like a silver dollar in a fool's pocket, was the memory of Baby Suggs—the mountain to his sky.†  (source)
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    A little belatedly, I started to worry over where it might land.†  (source)
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