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Example sentences for "tardily"

Lexicographically close words:
tarbush; tard; tarda; tarde; tardi; tardiness; tardy; tare; tared; tares
  1. With great dignity her gaze was bent beyond him on the nearing host, and when Constance plucked her arm she tardily looked three wrong ways.

  2. She turned and they tardily followed their friends, bound for the gangway.

  3. Had he watched Sally's face then, as closely as he had watched it all through dinner, he would have seen the colour of ashes that swept across it, tardily letting the blood drain back into her cheeks.

  4. Therefore they must not blaspheme Him, either directly or through His agents, nor tardily yield Him what He claims.

  5. It was on his way into Egypt, with his wife and children, that a mysterious interposition forced Zipporah reluctantly and tardily to circumcise her son.

  6. Fannie, as he tardily wheeled and rode slowly up to the low gate.

  7. Then he saw what had so tardily emboldened the figure to come forward out of hiding.

  8. Fair's reply came tardily and was disguised as a playful guess.

  9. His heart was always breaking" at some act of parsimony on the part of the Government in so tardily giving that which he pleaded was an urgent necessity for them to have.

  10. Gregory speaks:--"What wonder if tardily our prayers are heard by the Lord, when we tardily or not at all hear the Lord when He commands?

  11. Every word of it sank into the brain of Asad thus tardily to enlighten him.

  12. God has been merciful to me a sinner," he said, "since He accords me the means to make amends, tardily though it be.

  13. Only, your ignoramus here again Proceeds as tardily to recognize Distinctions: ask him what a fiddle means, And "Just a fiddle" seems the apt reply.

  14. Most of those on board, with the exception of the individuals who have already been particularly mentioned, were below, some seeking relief from physical suffering on their pallets, and others tardily bethinking them of their sins.

  15. Away we'll go, And merrily marry, Nor tardily tarry Till day is done!

  16. Spring comes tardily among the mountains, and this year especially she showed no smiling countenance.

  17. At four in the afternoon of the 26th a Papal column tardily arrived upon the scene, but they perceived that all was over at Monte Rotondo, and, after firing a few musket shots, they fled to Rome in disorder.

  18. But it was timidly and tardily done, and therefore ineffectively.

  19. We have seen the order of the Wesleyan preachers coming so tardily across the ocean, and propagated with constantly increasing momentum southward from the border of Maryland.

  20. The hotel people are frequently disturbed and put about by visitors, usually English people, inexcusably coming tardily to table.

  21. Tardily we are beginning to adopt the foreign system of numerous and spacious public rooms, and especially public drawing–rooms, to which ladies can freely resort.

  22. His Eminence moves tardily to night," he said in reply to a remark of the Duke.

  23. When the state tardily awoke to the same consciousness of opportunity and method, it found a large part of what should have been its own work in the hands of a rival power.

  24. The report of these atrocities, tardily reaching the Old World, called forth an almost universal cry of horror.

  25. The love of Andrea and Michael, tardily seen, only partially realised, had helped her at last.

  26. After a year in prison the news tardily reached Michael through his friend, the doctor, that the duke was dead.

  27. Then part of the sense of his brother's last words tardily reached Michael's blurred faculties.

  28. Beginning as Jesuit and as priest, he somewhat tardily escaped the constraints of the latter to employ the education of the former in literary enterprise.

  29. Tardily the foresight of the Dean was recognized, until at last Archbishop Whately, in his annotations upon Bacon’s Essay on Honor and Reputation, commemorates it as an historic example.

  30. Mysie explained that not being a regular meal, no one was obliged to come punctually to it, or to come at all, but these who came tardily might fare the worse.

  31. In the dining-room the curtains had been drawn back and the candles extinguished; but the daylight seemed to fall tardily and unnaturally upon the room after its three days' exclusion.

  32. In the three days of his illness his natural exuberance of mind had been directed towards one point--the tardily aroused knowledge of the future that awaited his children.

  33. And now, Bjarke, thou art strong, though thou hast come forth more tardily than was right, and thou retrievest by bravery the loss caused by thy loitering.

  34. Then Ella came to repent of his lavishness, and tardily set to reckoning the size of the hide, measuring the little skin more narrowly now that it was cut up than when it was whole.

  35. The Danes came down on the king as he was tardily making off, and killed him.


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