Sentence examples for Much belated from inspiring English sources
'much belated' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when something or someone is late, but you want to express that the lateness is even more than usual. For example, "My apologies for the much belated reply to your e-mail."
But recently, as Trump's campaign has received much belated closer scrutiny, his reliable approach to the Klan problem has faltered.
Dr. Berwick, who made his reputation campaigning against medical errors, is a promising (if much belated) selection for precisely this reason.
Richard Cohen, a columnist for The Washington Post, touched this nerve when he wrote that Japan's attitude smacked of "epic hypocrisy" because of Japan's much belated, and for its neighbors still dubious, apologies for the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army in Asia during World War II.
Three weeks ago, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson issued a much belated apology to Brown's family; they politely declined to accept it, saying that they'd prefer justice to contrition.
As it would be for his chief rival, Max von Sydow, another 82-year-old with a celebrated film history who would also be a much-belated winner.
His only public event last Tuesday, hours before the attack began, was welcoming players from the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins to the White House for a much-belated ceremony.
A much-belated congratulations on your Emmy win.
The mounting international criticism indicates a welcome, if much-belated, refusal by major European, Latin American and Asian countries to defer any longer to the U.S. on this issue, and their readiness to expose what they long knew but were reluctant to express: that Netanyahu's declared commitment to a two-state solution has been a lie.
He is gaining some much deserved, if belated, recognition outside Canada as one of the best young players in the league.
But Clemens Hellsberg, the Philharmonic's president, who has done much to throw belated light on the orchestra's dark years under Hitler's Reich, has defended the concert as a sign of hope for a new millennium and an educational gesture.
The young Eliot wrote some fine poems in French, and he had his reasons, too: the poet of Prufrock and Other Observations is much more a belated contemporary of Laforgue, Corbière and Rimbaud than of the Georgians Ezra Pound was busy skewering in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
