Sentence examples for lateness is from inspiring English sources

I'm resigned to the high probability of Jones being incredibly late (lateness is one of her "things"), but (hallelujah!) she's on time-ish (less than an hour late) and apologises profusely for this minor tardiness.

Re "When 3 Minutes Late Is On Time: New Transit Agency Standards Raise Questions of Fairness" (news article, Oct. 4): While defining lateness is important, even more important is the inadequate number of trains and buses at all times but rush hours.

[Anelka] was always late for training at Manchester City but our players know that lateness is simply not an option.

He makes sure that he is never late for his sessions again, since Morales tells him that his lateness is an attention getting ploy.

For Adorno lateness is "incapable of being subsumed under the concept of expression". Beethoven's late works move away from the capricious use of anomaly and towards a use of convention that fractures conventional motifs such that the fragments do not become mere aberrations, but rather crystallized representations of convention scattered throughout the work.

"Lateness is really a commonly misunderstood problem," says Diana DeLonzor, author of Never Be Late Again, who has conducted her own research on the perpetually tardy.

Lateness was not tolerated.

Glitches and lateness are to be expected.

Genet's "lateness" was in his refusal to be reconciled to the perquisites of dominant powers.

Soon I found that none of my various shortcomings – my messiness, my lateness – was going unnoticed.

A Clinton Foundation spokesperson said Chelsea attended the lunch earlier in the day but her lateness was due to Denver traffic.