LATELY in a Sentence
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125 example sentences for LATELY, such as:
1. But I have only lately found this out.
2. She's been having a tough time of it lately.
3. Now you mention it, I haven't seen her around lately.
4. She's been edgy lately, waiting for the test results.
5. Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
2. She's been having a tough time of it lately.
3. Now you mention it, I haven't seen her around lately.
4. She's been edgy lately, waiting for the test results.
5. Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LATELY
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lately
ad. in the recent past
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1 He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs.
2 The objects he had lately pursued, turned worthless beside her; such success as was almost in his grasp, he flung away from him like the dirt it was, compared with her.
3 It is well you should speedily know that your handmaiden is a poor Jewess, the daughter of that Isaac of York, to whom you were so lately a good and kind lord.
4 She had not realized till lately how ill to loose they were, these bonds of love.
5 So altogether I'm very well off here, especially lately.
6 I shall not ride to-morrow, certainly," said Fanny; "I have been out very often lately, and would rather stay at home.
7 You forget, Fanny, how lately all this has been built, and for how confined a purpose, compared with the old chapels of castles and monasteries.
8 He, indeed, I have lately thought, has seen the woman he could love, which, I am convinced, my eldest son has not.
9 Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted.
10 She had lately lost sight even of her father and sister and Bath.
11 His spirits had been greatly recovering lately as might be expected.
12 He has seen her lately, and has asked me for permission to pay his addresses to her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
13 But I have only lately found this out.
14 I felt myself in that whimsical state of uneasiness lately; but I shall be spared it now.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
15 You see, I had some of my own," said Thomasin evasively, "and I have not wanted any of his until lately.
Example Sentence:
1 She's been having a tough time of it lately.
2 Now you mention it, I haven't seen her around lately.
3 She's been edgy lately, waiting for the test results.
4 In answer to my inquiries, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected.
5 Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.