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Example sentences for "overdue"

Lexicographically close words:
overdrawn; overdress; overdressed; overdrive; overdriven; overe; overeating; overemphasis; overestimate; overestimated
  1. Then, as though it had been overdue and long awaited, the laugh checked and choked.

  2. It was to the fourth that Rufin turned with an overdue thrill of excitement.

  3. According to a National Bank official, the new credit regulations were to be rigorously applied in order to combat a rising trend in the volume of overdue credits that became apparent in the first half of 1970.

  4. Excess and overdue credits carry an interest rate of up to 10 percent for the first three months and up to 12 percent for the next three months.

  5. On the level, boy, you're overdue at the foolish farm.

  6. She really will not be overdue until she's out a hundred and twenty days.

  7. The Transoceanic air-freighter Pontiac has been overdue at Vera Cruz for ten days.

  8. Transoceanic air ship Star Chaser has been overdue at this port for ten days.

  9. Overdue vessels in 1999 gave no anxiety in that era of progress.

  10. The Star Chaser is Ten Days Overdue at Tokio.

  11. I should like to have my overdue wages, Mrs. Lamb.

  12. I do not doubt that if you take them their overdue wages they'll get up, and get out of the house also, as quickly as you like.

  13. In the District of Columbia the time is long overdue for granting national suffrage to its citizens and also applying the principle of local self-government to the Nation's Capital.

  14. This and other changes in the law are long overdue and should be taken care of promptly.

  15. I also urge the Congress to approve a long overdue increase in the salaries of Members of the Congress and of the Federal judiciary to a level commensurate with their heavy responsibilities.

  16. From this date on, no more credit will be allowed any one owing overdue accounts; furthermore, definite particulars of credit requirements must be supplied in advance.

  17. As I am anxious to close up these overdue accounts at once, I must ask for your remittance in full by return mail.

  18. The turnkey snarled, "She was posted as overdue three days ago.

  19. I didn't answer; I did not understand; I wanted to tell him I did not care, because the Lion was posted as overdue and Seraphina was drowned.

  20. Analysts are calling this the first leg of the Great Bull Market of the 1990s, saying this surge has been overdue for a decade.

  21. When they learned of the provisions of the above-mentioned act they were easily prevailed upon to pay "salaries" long overdue to their "servants" and the latter were allowed to return to their homes.

  22. When the time came for him to take long overdue leave I had no competent person to put in his place, and in deference to my wishes he continued at his post for nearly two years.

  23. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship By Harry Collingwood Another very well-written book by Collingwood.

  24. Meanwhile, the company's officers in New York were concluding arrangements to make the overdue payment, which was done a few weeks later.

  25. One of these instalments was overdue when Drake came to La Gloria with Lieutenant Cienfuente, who had owned the land, and set up the claim that the contract had lapsed.

  26. Vote on long overdue judicial nominations and other important appointees.

  27. And I ask the Congress to join me again in this common approach and to give the president the trade authority long used and now overdue and necessary to advance our prosperity in the 21st century.

  28. Your irregular business methods in the management of that store since O'mie began to keep your records you are going to make straight and honest by giving all that is overdue to your senior partner, Mrs. Irving Whately.

  29. The moment for a long overdue retribution was come.

  30. Generally a bank declines to pay a note that is overdue though there is no law, except in a few states, against paying it should the bank decide to do so.

  31. Also an overdue note accepted or indorsed is regarded as payable on demand, so far as the maker is concerned.

  32. All the consolidated overdue stops came in here.

  33. His, you see, had been a quick passage, while the ship his wife sailed in was considerably overdue before the wreck occurred.

  34. He was white and still, hardly breathing, already the overdue chattel of the grave.

  35. A semiannual premium was overdue on his life insurance.

  36. Fines on overdue books are not for the purpose of revenue.

  37. This distinction is important for a book taken out on a Library Use Slip is overdue if not returned the day issued.

  38. A book which is overdue will not be renewed and cannot be drawn out again by the same person until the following day.

  39. Failure to receive overdue notices does not relieve from penalty, for the date due is stamped in each book.

  40. On all other books and periodicals which become overdue the fine is 50 cents per volume if not returned on or before the third day overdue, increasing to $1.

  41. All books and periodicals if not overdue and if not in demand may be renewed for the same length of time as the original charge.

  42. Books charged on a Library Use Slip and not returned the same day, when recalled will be treated as overdue and the borrower becomes subject to the prescribed fines.

  43. A book becomes due the day recalled and if not returned on the third day overdue borrower is subject to the prescribed fines.

  44. No paper of his ever went to protest or became overdue after that through any negligence of his.

  45. Once he had let a small note of his become overdue at the bank, but his father raised such a row that he never forgot it.

  46. Donibristle, of which Peter was wireless officer, had been reported overdue and missing, and was afterwards given out by Lloyd's as a total loss.

  47. He was still at Durban, awaiting the news that the West Barbican was overdue and believed missing.

  48. He has fifty cattle to dispose of; the merchant buys them, and the overdue account, with interest, is paid.

  49. For instance, a merchant will approach a Boer respecting an overdue account.


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