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• Gosling was late to start her report, but styled it out with a smooth "belated good morning".2015 October 27, Harry Fletcher, “Watch BBC newsreader Joanna Gosling style it out after missing her cue”, in Digital Spy. From the entry style it out
• It started a few months ago when this megalogue finally prodded me into belated action.2009 September 9, Madeleine Bunting, “My battle to cut carbon: a baffling, frustrating path to a more honest life”, in Guardian. From the entry megalogue
• A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise. From the entry slush
• This explains the belated protest from Taipei and Beijing over U.S. administration of the islands after the war.2012 September 19, Han-Yi Shaw, “The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Diaoyu Islands
• Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry ignis fatuus
• No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.1922, Elizabeth von Arnim, chapter 16, in The Enchanted April, New York: Washington Square Press, published 1995, page 216. From the entry afterglow
• And Darwin, who in spite of his reclusivity was fond of honors, received his belated acceptance by the French in good spirit.1992, Richard Lee Marks, Three men of the Beagle, page 244. From the entry reclusivity
• The text, surviving as a “workshop draft” consisting of “a hodgepodge of scraped out letters, belated additions and cancelled passages,” is known for its idiosyncratic orthography and its unreadableness.2010, Katharine Breen, Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400, page 109. From the entry unreadableness
• A belated Chinese Communist report disclosed today that a local armed revolt against the Communist government broke out in Hsishui county in Hupei province on Feb. 21 and 22.[1952 March 23 [1952 March 22], “Revolt by 280 Armed Men in Red China Acknowledged”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 180…. From the entry Xishui

Meaning of belated

1. adjective Affected or overtaken by the lateness of the time; hence, synonym of benighted (“overtaken by night; caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination”).
2. adjective Later in relation to the proper time which something should have happened; specifically, delayed beyond the proper time.
3. adjective Slow to learn or to adopt a trend; hence, lacking education or sophistication; benighted, unenlightened, unsophisticated.

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How do you use belated in a sentence?

Belated is used as an adjective. For example: “A belated happy birthday to you!”

What is a short sentence with belated?

“A belated happy birthday to you!”

What does belated mean?

Belated means affected or overtaken by the lateness of the time; hence, synonym of benighted (“overtaken by night; caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination”).