Sentence examples for tardy on from inspiring English sources

Don't try to get tardy on purpose because it's "cool"- no one finds it very humorous when the teacher is giving a lecture and you walk in during the middle of it.

Mr. McGinn was tardy on this morning, and later paid for it.

In the last year, Forbes told me, the club was tardy on garbage bills and rent, and he could never find anyone in charge of paying.

He repeated his case at an Eastchester gas station yesterday, accusing Mrs. Clinton of being tardy on the issue and out of touch with average New York customers.

He was at once an infuriatingly pragmatic politician, tardy on the issue of slavery, and at the same time a transcendent figure - poetic, resonant, appealing to better angels we 21st-century Americans still find painfully hard to invoke.

Many of the LDCs freed their exchange rates and interest rates, and cut regulations on prices and markets for goods, including farm produce, though, crucially, many were tardy on financial reform and privatisation.

Bobby Gillespie - Rock the Shack (2001) Rock the Shack, New Order's slightly tardy take on the new rock revolution, featured the Primal Scream lead singer on backing vocals.

Our shame will stain the "tardy" box on the report card.

"Show's about to start, boys!" he bellowed from his locker, then tapped out the number of a tardy teammate on his cellphone.

She's gone up 9lb but fully deserves it, having travelled strongly that day after a tardy start on what was her seasonal return.

Other issues played a part: the government's new workplace laws, its tardy response on climate change and a popular new Labor leader, Kevin Rudd.However, a poll in December on the Hicks case itself rocked the government.