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Example sentences for "little later"

  • I called on her a little later, and before I left I hinted to her what people were saying, and asked her if I had not better tell them the truth.

  • So I stood with it in my hand till a little later my landlady entered to lay the cloth.

  • A little later he beckoned to Pamela, now a lovely girl of nineteen, and, putting his arm about her neck, kissed her for the first time in years.

  • It was clearly a mistake, however, to leave his own local work in the hands of that properly named person a little later.

  • But even the pick and shovel did not inspire confidence a little later.

  • A little later he became a printer's apprentice, in the office of the Hannibal Journal, at his father's suggestion.

  • A little later, she came out carrying the sleeping baby in her arms.

  • The latter confirmed this surmise by saying a little later, when she issued from the kitchen drying her hands and bared arms on a towel: "The worst of these here nursing 'omes is that yer never knows when you're going to be on the job.

  • She looked at it curiously, fondly, as if it might prove the foundation stone of the beloved one's prosperity; a little later, she begged it of him.

  • A little later, Tom, having adjusted the motor that had stalled before, compelling him to vol-plane back to earth, the two chums were sailing through the air toward Waterford.

  • I am glad there will be no more delays, and that we will soon be moving northward," spoke Mr. Parker, a little later.

  • He trudged on, and, a little later, his gaze was attracted by a large shed, in the rear of a white house the pretentious appearance of which indicated that persons of wealth owned it.

  • Mr. Pendyce's brougham, behind a brown horse, coming a little later, was obliged to range itself behind.

  • When told a little later that a telegram had been sent to Harz his eyes expressed satisfaction.

  • A little later he went downstairs and passed into the room.

  • It was suppressed a little later than 1830.

  • This was milder praise than that given a little later by a London paper which said: "There is not a king in Europe but would look like a valet de chambre by his side.

  • He had less than two hundred men when he appeared a little later at Kaskaskia near the Mississippi in what is now Illinois and captured the small British garrison, with the friendly consent of the French settlers about the fort.

  • A little later in the same year similar events took place at Cherry Valley, in central New York.

  • A little later, Theron brought himself to drop a laboriously casual suggestion as to a possible increase of salary, and saw with sinking spirits the faces of the stewards freeze with dumb disapprobation.

  • He was ashamed of this feeling a little later, and of his trick with the sermon.

  • So it happened that when, a little later on, the appointment of Theron Ware to Octavius was read out, none of the people of Tecumseh either noted or cared.

  • A little later he crossed into West Broadway, and his pace slowed to a leisurely stroll.

  • A little later perhaps in court--but not now.

  • Equally striking is an example seen a little later in another part of Europe; and it is the more noteworthy because Halley and Newton had already fully established the modern scientific theory.

  • A little later, when the great comet of 1556 scared popes, emperors, and reformers alike, such men as Fabricius at Vienna and Heller at Nuremberg quietly observed its path.

  • A little later in the month, July, another trial was made, when a wind was blowing estimated at sixteen miles an hour.

  • A little later he is equally struck with the view of the open country, and his ecstasy is pardonable in a novice.

  • The manuscript was sent to Beard, who met Clemens a little later in the office of Webster & Co.

  • And a little later: Since bad luck struck us it is risky for people to have to do with us.

  • Charles Dickens's son, with his wife and daughter, followed a little later.

  • She put the question to Colonel Ashley a little later.

  • And a little later he added: "I've got some kind of a heart disease, and Quintard won't tell me whether it is the kind that carries a man off in an instant or keeps him lingering along and suffering for twenty years or so.

  • His breakfast came in, and a little later he became quite gay.

  • And a little later: "This is the kind of a road I like; a good country road through the woods.

  • A little later Mrs. Allen and I, in the sitting-room, heard some one walking softly outside on the veranda.

  • A little later; at the foot of the garden of bay and cedar, neighbors, inspired by Dan Beard, who had recently located near by, set off some fireworks.

  • A little later he might have been seen quitting the dormitory and taking his way with a dubious step across the campus into the town.

  • A little later he stopped abruptly, with silent inquiry turning his face to the sky: a raindrop had fallen on his hand.

  • The eccentric man came in a little later, just as Tom and Ned had finished adjusting the mechanism.

  • There are the prison barracks," said the guide a little later, his talk being translated by Mr. Petrofsky.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little later" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another boat; clean sweep; little behind; little below; little bit; little brandy; little broth; little chance; little disappointed; little door; little east; little figure; little gentleman; little green; little grim; little house; little island; little knowledge; little orange; little pepper and salt; little room; little shop; little talk; little walk; little weary; little yellow