Sentence examples for rather tardy from inspiring English sources

"Cycling has its villains, but also its heroes," writes the rather tardy Gary Naylor.

Its blossoms were rather tardy, and our Epeorus flies proved sparse when they finally appeared.

This might have seemed a rather tardy question, given that the project had already consumed "the best part of a decade, the invention of brand new technologies, unprecedented computing power and $3bn", as Adam Rutherford notes.

The acclaim was rather tardy, seeing that for the past three decades Kapuscinski had been filing dispatches from the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Latin America and, most often, Africa, initially in the service of a Polish youth journal as its first and only foreign correspondent and later for the Polish Press Agency.

Updated at 4.51am GMT 4.46am GMT 9th over: India 35-3 (Gambhir 24, Raina 5) Finn's round the wicket line hasn't been as accurate as when he comes over and after only two balls round, both angled across, he comes back on to the true path and almost extracts a caught and bowled off Raina but even at 6ft 8in he can't quite reach it with his outstretched hand on the rather tardy dive.

Apple is rather tardy releasing this latest iPhone, missing its traditional summer launch date by a good two months.

Some of those defaulters were rather more tardy than Hain: he was six months late (while Harman was three months late).

Use big words when you talk, for example, saying "tardy" rather than "late", etc.

For me, it's not so much about being punctual or tardy; but rather, it's about being considerate of people I care about.

Even by its own rather leisurely timetable, the Administration is tardy.

The British were deeply resentful of America's tardy entry, driven by circumstances rather than principle.