Sentence examples for late delayed from inspiring English sources
Mail can arrive days late, delayed by gloved workers checking for suspicious envelopes.
The IceBridge plane, it turned out, was running late — delayed in Fairbanks, Alaska, for maintenance on one of its propellers.
He was an hour and a half late, delayed by a group of Egyptian journalists, and he had sandwiches sent to my translator and me while we waited.
Our first day on the mountain started late, delayed by a big, leisurely breakfast of eggs wrapped in rashers of the porkiest bacon I'd ever tasted.
The make-or-break talks began more than three hours late, delayed because of last-ditch preparatory talks involving the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, and his Greek counterpart, Varoufakis.
In July, 2013, more than 1 in 4 flights in the U.S. were late, delayed or canceled, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
2) If it's not too late, delay the kick and find out who the missing pad belongs to.
The musician turned up about 15 minutes late, delaying the beginning of the second ballet, Balanchine's "Symphony in Three Movements".
Today, couples with college and (especially) graduate degrees tend to cohabit early and marry late, delaying childbirth and raising smaller families than their parents, while enjoying low divorce rates and bearing relatively few children out of wedlock.
On this occasion, however, Webster visited the local alehouse and returned late, delaying Thomas' departure.
WFIRST did get the go-ahead this year (3 years later than expected) for launch in 2025 (5 years late)—delays that were due to the JWST's budget problems.
