Arrive past due

Usage examples of belate.

Utter silence followed this pronouncement, such that even far across the cathedral square, the rustle of parchment could be heard as the papal chaplain rolled up his scroll, turning away to converse quietly with two waiting prelates as a belated murmur of conversation rippled through the crowd.

That thought led him to belated recollection of Roger Mac and the new tenants.

He glanced at me, and I saw his mouth twist, as he had his own moment of belated realization.

To their shrill cluttering was added the yelps of Bijou and the belated screams of Lalla.

Stuart Buffin to make a most belated appearance at breakfast that morning.

Then Mama picked me up in her arms, recovered the drum and drumsticks from the Vicar, and promised Father Wiehnke to pay for the damage, whereupon he accorded her a belated absolution, for I had interrupted her confession: even Oskar got a little of the blessing, though I could have done without it.

Wizard helped him to the dumpster and he leaned against it until the belated adrenalin shudders had passed.

Once as they were sauntering homeward by the brink of the turbid Eger, they came to a man lying on the grass with a pipe in his mouth, and lazily watching from under his fallen lids the cows grazing by the river-side, while in a field of scraggy wheat a file of women were reaping a belated harvest with sickles, bending wearily over to clutch the stems together and cut them with their hooked blades.

Whatever poetical or imaginative suggestions might lie in this scene for others, it made no such appeal to Tom Emmet as he strode along, passing belated pedestrians in his course.

Then a night hawk screamed, a whippoor-will complained, a belated killdeer swept the sky, and the night wind sang a louder song.

They were convinced of one thing: that this leisurely-mannered, well-dressed stranger could not have been the foe that they and their belated friends had battled around the streets of Pomelo City.

Eduard Seler and Walter Lehmann, were the first to give the Tezcucan chronicler belated credit for having told far more truth than anyone had ever suspected.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

Besides, methought that was the purpose in the belated spring plantings.

But even in a Cathedral town, even after midnight, several successive expeditions of a lay precentor with a wheelbarrow full of quicklime would have been apt to attract the comment of some belated physician, some cleric coming from a sick bed, or some local roysterers.