Sentence examples for is a tardy from inspiring English sources

It is a tardy rite and all the livelier for being tardy.

When a job is submitted to the customer before the due date it is called an early job and if it is delivered after the due date, it is a tardy job.

However, creatinine is a tardy and unreliable marker of acute kidney injury.

Hamlet confesses to being a "tardy son" who has not committed "Th' important acting" of the ghost's command.

But he's a tardy would-be assassin – she had already published the blog he was trying to nip in the bud.

I was a tardy arrival in literary London – in my late 20s when I started freelancing, my early 30s when I got my first desk job.

She has already submitted an appeal to the government's planning inspectorate to consider it afresh, based on what she said was a tardy response to her scheme.

Erasmus' rather reluctant decision to confront Luther was a tardy response to the urging of many Catholic friends and patrons (including popes and kings), all of whom had been warning him that it was his duty to oppose Luther's heresies if he wanted to preserve his own reputation as a Catholic theologian.

As for President Chirac, his conversion to road safety is a somewhat tardy: in a book last year his former, long-time chauffeur, Jean-Claude Laumond, boasted of driving his boss at speeds that a rally-driver might envy.

The latest push, however, is a bit tardy.

Some might say that Kellogg is a bit tardy to the vitality banquet, as firms such as Tyson Foods, PepsiCo's Frito Lay and Altria's "little sister" company Kraft Foods each announced plans some two years ago to abate their use of trans fats as U.S. consumers suddenly seemed concerned with obesity and diabetes.