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Example sentences for "lately"

Lexicographically close words:
lated; lateen; lateinische; lateinischen; latelie; laten; latency; lateness; latens; latent
  1. Bishop of Winchester announced "a solemn dirge and mass," in honour of the lately deceased king, Henry VIII.

  2. It has nothing of the splendor of the project [Footnote: 9] which has been lately laid upon your table by the noble lord in the blue ribbon.

  3. Until very lately all authority in America seemed to be nothing but an emanation from yours.

  4. In Chicago, for instance, the Branch has lately held a fair of colossal proportions, to which the whole Northwest was invited to send supplies, and to come in mass!

  5. What had caused him the greatest uneasiness was the knowledge that Don Balthasar had been induced lately to write some letter to the archbishop in Havana.

  6. It was reported in town that the private audience the Juez had lately from the Captain-General was of a most stormy description.

  7. Did you not lately swear you were prepared To do my bidding?

  8. Flower and all have you uprooted with malignant hand; In the dust it lies where thriving it did lately stand.

  9. Marsh, “it is only lately that you have taken to snubbing him.

  10. Well, the fact is, he has asked me to do something just lately that I don’t in the least want to do, and I don’t see how in the deuce I am to get out of it.

  11. Never had words sounded so honey-sweet as my name ejaculated by a voice which, if not lately familiar, was at least friendly and recognizable.

  12. By this time the party, including the Gunner Captain, were filing along a communication trench, lately the property of some German gentlemen, on their way back to headquarters.

  13. He laid his whip aside, as he spoke, and turned to the table from which Lady Betty had lately risen.

  14. To Lady Betty's eye, and in the phrase of the day, she had the vapours; alas, she suffered with better reason that the fine ladies who had lately made them the fashion.

  15. Marguerite, lately I had begun to think that you had more sound sense than your fortunate sister but I am doomed to bitter disappointment.

  16. Skinner's had lately taken the place of the home-made one which now graced the spare bedroom up stairs.

  17. I have been thinking so much of home lately that it seems as if I had room for no other thoughts, and, oh, you cannot imagine how much I want to see papa.

  18. And two young gentlemen, lately enrolled as professionals.

  19. Mr. Verne had awoke to consciousness, and no doubt had listened to the words so lately uttered.

  20. Mr. Wray by reason of business has but lately taken her in hand tho' he assures me a little practice is all she wants; her Reading I hear twice a day.

  21. I do not observe her to be fond of negroes company, nor have I heard lately of any bad words; chief of our Quarrels is for eating of those green Apples in our garden and not keeping the head smooth.

  22. What if the larger vessel he had lately seen was this very privateer, the Aimable Vertu?

  23. But what more likely than that the bitter ill-feeling rife in the village, which had lately vented itself against the inmates of the Towers, should now have sought a new victim in Penwarden?

  24. After the heroic resolution he had lately come to, it was a sorry thing to have been worsted in the first encounter.

  25. Upon my word," said the Vicar, on beholding their wrathful countenances, "if I had not so lately taken off my surplice I fear I should laugh.

  26. The curious thing is that John Trevanion has but lately been here.

  27. Dick saw no help for it but to acquaint the riding-officer with the petty persecution he had lately suffered, and the cause of it, which hitherto Mr. Polwhele had not known.

  28. His face was blackened; before and behind him hung a tub, exactly similar to those which Sam had lately broken up.

  29. Left: Two beautiful knives lately made of fossil mammoth ivory by a Seward Peninsula Eskimo.

  30. Left: Two beautiful knives of fossil mammoth ivory lately made by a Seward Peninsula Eskimo.

  31. I've been working very hard lately and am a little run down," he added, anxious that she should not think that their talk had tired him, and feeling the necessity of some explanation.

  32. I've, I've seen something of her lately and I've tried to tell her as well as I could.

  33. After referring to a severe attack of melancholy which had lately oppressed him, he proceeds:— “I am in a distressing perplexity how to decide as to the property of my book.

  34. By his lordship it was lately handed to the Grampian Club, with a view to publication.

  35. Hawkesworth has lately revived in his preface to the ‘Voyages to the South Seas;’ but Dr.

  36. On the 13th October Boswell informed Mr. Temple that on lately visiting Lowther Castle he received back his wig.

  37. He acknowledges that he had many wanton passions, “and had lately been wild as ever.

  38. He had lately given “his word of honour” to General Paoli that “he would not taste fermented liquor for a year.

  39. He refers exultingly to the attention he had lately received from Paoli.

  40. He did not answer several letters which I wrote at intervals, requesting to wait upon him; I lately wrote to him that such behaviour to me was certainly not generous.

  41. He celebrates the memory of Sir John Lowther, ancestor of Lord Lowther,[72] who had lately promised him support.

  42. To that house Boswell had removed lately from Chessel’s Buildings.

  43. Till lately the family of Corbet possessed lands in Clydesdale.

  44. His loyal adherents were alarmed, and the two usurpers were prevented, seized, degraded from the purple, and embarked for the same island and monastery where their father had been so lately confined.

  45. One year and nine days after the commencement of the siege, an army, so lately strong and triumphant, burnt their tents, and tumultuously repassed the Milvian bridge.

  46. Several allusions have been lately made at Parliament to the 2000 clergymen who signed a Declaration calling in question the Queen's supremacy.

  47. This forenoon, a gentleman came to see us, who is lately from London.

  48. The Lizard, frigate, has lately arrived from America, and to-day was towed up from the Sound, having cut away her masts yesterday in a gale of wind.

  49. Admiral Keppel has lately sailed from St. Helena with about twenty-eight sail of the line and six frigates; and a French fleet has sailed from Brest; but I cannot learn the exact number of ships of which the fleet consists.

  50. He was one of the number that lately petitioned to go on board the ships.

  51. Some carpenters are now at work building a new Black-hole, in an old prison in this yard, that has lately been repaired.

  52. We are informed that two packets have lately arrived, and confirm the reports that Philadelphia is taken.

  53. Three Marblehead men came to see us, who were lately taken in a merchantman bound to France.

  54. They were lately brought from Liverpool, and were captured in different vessels.

  55. This afternoon, also, Mr. Heath came to see us; he has lately returned from London.

  56. The War Office has lately issued privately some extremely interesting notes on the growth and training of the New Armies, of which it is only now possible to make public use.

  57. But I have reason to believe that you are lately become acquainted with one of my cousins, and have laid him under some obligations.

  58. A strong common-sense, which it is not easy to unseat or disturb, marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought, as of sailors and soldiers who had lately learned to read.

  59. It is an unlucky moment to remember these sparkles of solitary virtue in the face of the honors lately paid in England to the Emperor Louis Napoleon.

  60. I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.

  61. The operatives do not own it, and gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.

  62. He had lately arrived to assist the regular station agent, who lived in a bit of a shack up the mountain and was a thin sallow creature with sad eyes and no muscles.

  63. That's Laurie's name for me, although lately he's taken to calling me Effervescence.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afresh; anew; just; late; new; newly; now; recently