Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "later"

Lexicographically close words:
laten; latency; lateness; latens; latent; latera; lateral; lateralis; laterally; laterals
  1. A few minutes later he again sat up in bed.

  2. Ten minutes later she strolled down-stairs to have a look at him.

  3. While they were walking along the platform toward the restaurant there was a sound of hurried footsteps behind them, and a moment later a breathless voice called out in English: "Excuse me, please!

  4. Then perhaps a few moments later he would find himself in the presence of an audience, and one heard him at his boasting: "Bigre!

  5. Three weeks later Sylvia was told that she was now fit to leave the hospital.

  6. Perhaps he'll come back later on when I've gone to bed and tell me more about it.

  7. She was woken up three hours later by the waiter, who announced with an air of excitement that Mr. Porter had arrived at the hotel and was intending to spend the night.

  8. There remain a number of sterile geniuses, whom Nature, with her usual prodigality, has put on the market in reserve, but for whom later on she finds she has no use on account of the economy that always succeeds extravagance.

  9. Later in the morning the weather cleared, the cliffs, the hills and the snowy mountains were glorious in the sunshine, and the troops basked at full length on deck while distant points took form far ahead, came on the beam and passed astern.

  10. Later in the morning the Japanese cruiser went off in that direction, leaving only H.

  11. Heavy shells, learned later to be those from the Goeben in the Dardanelles Channel, shrieked occasionally out of the unknown, and sent up great geysers of water near a four-funnelled cruiser to the right.

  12. Early on a Sunday morning the mist-covered hills of Ceylon took form on the starboard bow; and, later on, a palm-grown shore and natives in catamarans.

  13. Later they filed on board, and were taken, each unit to its own mess-deck, to deposit their gear.

  14. He learned later it was just Abdul's normal method of spending the night when he had the wind up.

  15. Old Abdul supplied the initiative, and later must have regretted it sorely.

  16. The only tactical result of the operation was that the enemy chose to make the outpost of contention a strong, almost impregnable position, which was captured three months later only by a ruse and hard fighting.

  17. Snipers were at their old dodges, and later in the evening Mac's section received for some time the attentions of an enemy mountain gun, which was new to this part of the line.

  18. Mick, and two hours later in the early afternoon they were bumping over the open country in a Ford ambulance towards the landing-place.

  19. That was all the troops heard of the fight for some days, though later the Empress of Russia passed on her way to pick up the many wounded from the wrecked Emden.

  20. Later in the morning they moved to the site of the camp to be, about a mile away.

  21. The Curlew was headed about and a few moments later was in sight of Musky Bay again.

  22. However, knowing those names may give a clew later on.

  23. Will wireless you later when he will return.

  24. We'll thresh all this out in court later on," he added.

  25. It was two days later and they were nearing Southampton, but the stop they had made to aid the Oriana's crew had given the Britisher a big lead on them.

  26. Jack explained what he hoped to accomplish with the instrument, and an instant later was sorry he had done so, for he noticed an expression of cupidity creep into Thurman's eyes.

  27. A half hour later Jack and Ned were fast asleep, dreaming of those stirring times when the immortal Abraham Lincoln was President of this glorious nation.

  28. The code was yielded up by Judson without a struggle, which procured him some leniency later on.

  29. The two firemen, who had helped the boys, received a good share of it and later were promoted by the company for their good work.

  30. A few minutes later Bannon climbed out on the framing beside him.

  31. At any rate, she lay awake later than usual that night, going over the problem, and she brought it up, the next morning, the first time that Bannon came into the office after Max had gone out.

  32. A few minutes later the telegraph operator came in and told him that the cars at Victory had been loaded with iron truss work the night before, and had gone off down the State.

  33. There were numerous interruptions at first, but later in the day the stream of wagons became almost continuous.

  34. A few moments later Max came back and Bannon straightened up to go.

  35. A few minutes later he was walking along a rickety plank sidewalk which seemed to lead in a general direction toward the elevator.

  36. Innovation was creeping in, even here; the later graves had mounds raised over them, and one had a little head-board with an inscription in ink.

  37. A month later a friend went down to spend a few days in the valley, and upon her return described to us the weddings of the whilom soldiers.

  38. They will be paid off next week; they cannot be later than ten days from now.

  39. Later in the day we learned that several letters from the absent soldier-boys had been received that morning, announcing their arrival on the evening train.

  40. But an instant later a speck of tarnish on the dash clock--a gift from Louise Brent--caught his eye, and he whisked a piece of cheesecloth from a pocket on the inside of the door and attacked it indignantly.

  41. A minute later he tried a steal, and was caught a yard away.

  42. Lanny called up a few minutes later to ask about developments and after that Tom Haley wanted information.

  43. An hour or so later Gordon left Brentwood well satisfied.

  44. A second later he was bowing again, for Mrs. Townsend was waving her blue-and-yellow banner toward him.

  45. Harold was not in sight when Dick reached the bottom of the ledge; but a few moments later when by careful climbing Dick had reached the seaward end of the rock, he came into view.

  46. But five minutes later he had found the paper and was chuckling enjoyably over the story.

  47. A moment later he reached third when Chase flied out to right field.

  48. A minute later Captain Billings faced Tom Haley, and the game began.

  49. Five minutes later the rival team appeared by ones and twos, and Caspar Billings sought Dick where he was watching the performance of his charges.

  50. A moment later Tom secured his fifth strike-out of the contest and the teams changed sides.

  51. The Point team came in a few minutes later and then there was a fine confusion and noise in there.

  52. Five years later he appeared as a poet, and published a volume of poetry which was very favourably received.

  53. About the middle of the eighteenth century, Caspar Friedrich Wolff discovered the true development; but his work was ignored, and it was only fifty years later that modern embryology began to work on the right line.

  54. In 1826 he was made grand officer of the Legion of Honour, and five years later was made a peer of France.

  55. History of the Earth's Crust When we study the earth's crust we find that it consists of layers or strata, laid down in succession, the earlier under the influence of heat, the later under the influence of water.

  56. The myriads of the lower formation have disappeared, and we are surrounded on an upper platform by the existences of a later creation.

  57. Later he determined to study agriculture, and went, in 1752, to live with a Norfolk farmer to learn practical farming.

  58. Two years later he organised an expedition to Asiatic Russia, charging himself with all the scientific observations.

  59. Later it becomes a straight, simple tube, strengthened by a gullet in front.

  60. In 1818 he received a baronetcy, and two years later was elected President of the Royal Society.

  61. In 1615 he was elected Lumleian lecturer at the College of Physicians, and three years later was appointed physician extraordinary to King James I.

  62. As epitomised for this work, the "Essays" have been made to include a still later study by the author, which will be included in future editions of the book.

  63. Two years later he became professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen.

  64. In only one brief sentence did he there allude to man, but twelve years later he published the "Descent of Man," in which the principles of the earlier volume found their logical outcome.

  65. Another important stage happened in much later times, when the King ceased to take a share in person in the deliberations of his Cabinet.

  66. By a statute only a few years later than the raising of the question whether a Parliament of William and Mary did or did not expire by the death of Mary, all such subtleties were swept away.

  67. Both hlàford and hlæfdige (Lord and Lady) are very puzzling words as to the origin of their later syllables.

  68. Now herein lurks something which has greatly affected all later political and social arrangements.

  69. Another still later change marks a step toward the recognition of the Cabinet.

  70. Our later constitutional history rather belongs to an inquiry of another kind.

  71. There were much later times when it was no unusual thing to declare a man in power to be a public enemy, or directly to address the Crown for his removal from office and from the royal presence.

  72. Moreover the custom of granting out lands to be held by the tenure of military service had become common in the later days of Roman power(58).

  73. We fill our streets and market-places with the statues of worthies of later days; Peel and Herbert and Lewis and Cobden yet live among us in bronze or marble.

  74. The career of Simon of Montfort is the most glorious in our later history.

  75. He was justified later by the sworn evidence of eye-witnesses.

  76. What these frenzied orders have cost in human lives history will tell later on.

  77. These, together with the later ideas of anchor escapement evolved by Graham, put clocks, within the span of a few years, on an almost modern basis.

  78. A moment later another pair would saunter up and stop.

  79. The family, I take it, went to Grafton, a small town near Worcester, later on.

  80. Probably John Bailey, who was no doubt one of the clockmaking Baileys of Yorkshire, was a pioneer of a little later period.

  81. A couple of centuries later we read of clocks being sent as presents.

  82. A second later the clerk returned triumphantly, displayed another ring, and renewed his attentions without noticing anything amiss.

  83. Later a pattern with two cherubs supporting a crown was popular; and at a still later date the head of the cherub set in a scroll is found.

  84. Later they had gone to see the big Metropolitan Life Insurance clock and watch its shooting red and white lights.

  85. Once, in later life, he one day picked up a gun that unexpectedly went off with such a bang that it knocked him down and as a result he could never be tempted into touching firearms of any description.

  86. The management took their experience as wise people do and years later began over again, afterward reaping greater success than they had ever known, all of which proves that it never pays to give up.

  87. It will, indeed, bear fruit more abundantly in later life; but it will not be without its value in youth.

  88. I believe that the young are to be trained in the way they should go; and as discretion is prominently a virtue of middle and later life, I deem it desirable that we should see at least the germs of it in the young.

  89. There is considerable rumor to the effect that, during the leisure of his later life, no less than in the lampooning efforts of his vagrom youth, he did turn his pen to rhymes.

  90. And, besides, Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his early plays, written in his first Loudon years, as in those produced at a later period.

  91. We shall see how this weakness was fostered by the new set into which circumstances forced Shakespeare, later on.

  92. We shall begin with Captain, afterwards Sir George, Grey, so well known in later times as a New Zealand statesman.

  93. Four years later he was able to carry out his purpose of returning to England; but his heart was in Australia all the while, and he became impatient to get back to its sunny skies and balmy air.

  94. Ten years later Captain Sturt succeeded in tracing it for 66 miles further, and found it ending its dubious career in the River Darling.

  95. During these later years he had been engaged in several essays in exploration, in which he rendered good service to his country and prepared himself for the perilous, but successful, journey with which his name will ever be associated.

  96. Here, and at several later camps, the explorers were treated with a visit from some awfully pertinacious intruders.

  97. The Burdekin was reached by the 16th of October, and a fortnight later its junction with the Suttor.

  98. A little later the roan ponies appeared with the Pritchett buckboard.

  99. Two hours later the Bray girls were seated in their aunt's comfortable room at a boarding house on a much better block than the one on which the tenement stood.

  100. A little later Lucas drove up from town with Harris Colesworth and his bag.

  101. A moment later 'Phemie saw Professor Spink dart out of the side door and peer after the departing Harris, around a corner of the house.

  102. As a little girl she had lived on a great ranch, where she could gallop from sunrise to sunset over her own prairie land, and later her life had been spent in a convent outside of Paris.

  103. The money was to be paid two weeks later in Paris, to me or to whoever brings this ring that I wear.

  104. His training at an English public school, and later as a soldier in the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, had saved him from a too early fall, and men liked him instinctively, and the women much too well.

  105. They didn't wait for a second asking, and a minute later were poking and rummaging all through the place.

  106. But the meaning of the cemetery appeared later when one morning, along of ten or so, my little boy came running in to say the Evangel was sighted in the pass.

  107. We dropped it into my tool chest, and threw the key on the floor of the bedroom, meaning to divide up equal later on.

  108. They were in such a hurry to be gone that they cut away their moorings with an ax, and I had the privilege, later on, of buying their anchor, second hand, for ten dollars in trade.

  109. A few minutes later they clambered up the ladder, the boat was hoisted in, and the boatswain's whistle was rousing the watch on deck: "Mainsail haul!

  110. Tom was a good deal like that professor who could make a prehistoric animal out of one prehistoric bone, and then, when later on they discovered the whole beast entire, it was head and tail with the one he had drawn on the blackboard.

  111. Old David was the first to feel the weight of authority, and I believe his job of Native Adviser was merely a plan to keep him in good humor till Mr. Clemm was ready to squash him, which Mr. Clemm did three months later most emphatic.

  112. A few minutes later and the whaler was bumping against the schooner's side.

  113. Decontamination at a later time may be too late to prevent injury to the individual, especially when exposed to vesicants.

  114. Starting in the later years of the 1980s, the international security environment has undergone rapid, fundamental, and revolutionary changes.

  115. Place the plastic bag in the designated storage area for later decontamination.

  116. The spelling of the character Maud changed to Maude in the later chapters.

  117. It will for a time banish care, but it is a deceitful fiend that comes at first with semblance of great friendship, but sooner or later it will turn upon him who has been lured by it, and become a deadly foe.

  118. But, my lord,” said Hartleton, “there is good reason to believe that no later than last night he committed a most awful murder.

  119. Later I owned an island in a Westmorland Lake, and had a beautiful house of woven branches of the growing rowan trees, with a garden planted with ferns and wild flowers among mossy bordered paths.

  120. Later on it may be possible to collect a more mature series of suggestions for recreative work in evening schools and continuation classes.

  121. The knitted covering used for the head may be all gathered into the back and simply flattened roughly into place with big stitches, as you will cover it with "hair" later on.

  122. A few nights later the citizens gave a ball in honor of the two heroes.

  123. We turn from the picture which a later French traveller, Brissot de Warville, draws of its poverty and desolation in 1788 to look at the renaissance, the rejuvenation that rescued this historic spot from oblivion.

  124. About a year later Mrs. Grey had a chance to escape.

  125. De Ségur a year or two later says of it: "Other parts of America were only beautiful by anticipation, but Rhode Island was complete.

  126. I tell you, Rouquin, that sooner or later they will regret what they are doing to-day.

  127. The Exhibition of French Primitives at the Pavilion Marsan in 1904 contained several little panels contemporary with the later Valois kings and with Henry IV.

  128. Some days later by a unanimous vote of both Houses, on a motion proposed by the Government, the Anti-Pyrotist Association was granted a charter recognising it as beneficial to the public interest.

  129. Six months later the proofs against Pyrot filled two storeys of the Ministry of War.

  130. A quarter of an hour later the brave Emiral had left the city of Alca.

  131. Who says that nine or ten years later he could have done as much?

  132. The life of that saint by the Abbot Simplicissimus is three hundred years later than the pretended events which it relates and that author shows himself excessively credulous and devoid of all critical faculty.

  133. A few seconds later the car snorted away into the cross-road on the left-hand side.

  134. Defending our position with such poor weapons as we have, we cannot prevent the enemy from sooner or later forcing an entrance.

  135. A moment later they caught sight of Gradoff and the two strangers approaching the tower from the direction of the house.

  136. A little later they noticed ahead of them a space dimly illuminated.

  137. Half a minute later the car ran past, swung to the right outside the gate, and dashed rather noisily in the direction of Dartmouth.

  138. It was perhaps half an hour later when the light appeared above the tree-tops.

  139. A moment later she left the window hurriedly, as a servant might do in answering a call.

  140. It could never have been intended for the reading of others, but doubtless the more elaborate portraits of persons in the later pages were intended for use when Pepys came to write his projected history of the Navy.

  141. It is evident from the tone of his later utterances that Pepys thought that he was going blind, a belief which was happily falsified.

  142. There was less for the doctors to do that day than usual, and it was not later than half-past two when, in bonnet and cloak, Sister Warwick began the little programme she had made for these "off hours.

  143. But in later years Molly often looked back with a shudder to those lonely autumn weeks.

  144. A few days later he very nearly put an end to his own life by accidentally drinking a strong sugar-of-lead lotion, used to bathe his cheek.

  145. Sotheby said it was worth a journey from London to hear him translate a Greek chorus; and, at a later day, the brawny Cumberland men called him "a varra bad un to lick.

  146. First-born among the Continents, though so much later in culture and civilization than some of more recent birth, America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World.

  147. At first, literature had the second place, while politics occupied the chief seat; though in later years their relative positions have been reversed.

  148. Besides, though Wilson's nominal power might have been greater in the control of the magazine in later years, it was virtually but little, if at all, increased.

  149. Part is probably not later than the seventeenth century: in other stanzas a more modern hand, much resembling Scott's, is traceable.


  150. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "later" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    later addition; later chapter; later chapters; later date; later days; later development; later editions; later hand; later known; later lecture; later letter; later life; later page; later period; later periods; later point; later stage; later time; later work; later works; later writers; later years; lateral buds; lateral line; lateral pressure; lateral view