Sentence examples for be very late from inspiring English sources

I may have to be very late.

Even though we'd be very late starting on it, can I ask you to reconsider?" But Rippon refuses.

I called my husband and told him I would be very late and hoped he would give our children dinner.

Jerry Jones would not speculate on when he expected to hear from Goodell, acknowledging that the decision "probably will be very late in the preseason".

"So you tell the spouse, rather unconvincingly, that, unexpectedly, you're going to be very late this evening and you'll be at mutual friend X's house.

There's the rolling non sequitur, when 10 minutes of silence are broken by Mom asking, "Banana, anybody?" And there's the father's plea to his sleepy kids, who want to know if they're going to make it home tonight: "We're trying but it will be very late if we do, so please, you can just go to sleep, please, I say".

"It was very late".

Mr Rangel was very late.

The patient is very late.

We're very late.

"It is very late.