Occurring after the expected or usual time.
1 A belated happy new year to all our Irish Times Abroad readers.
2 Job and cost cuts are a belated attempt to address this problem.
3 Amnesty International welcomed the vote as a belated chance to deliver justice.
4 It is a welcome, though regrettably belated , development in the Syrian crisis.
5 The belated traveller was Reynard; and another had stepped in before him.
6 We could not doubt that justice, if belated , had come at last.
7 Out in the garden, the Piper was attending to his belated planting.
8 Harriet passed the door on her way in to a belated supper.
9 A belated place in the top 10 now seems close to certain.
10 It brought a belated reward when his attacking colleagues conjured three goals.
11 The cry of a belated newsboy floated through the open front door.
12 A belated lemon afterglow lingered at the edge of the sky ahead.
13 Next, up comes his belated inclusion in the Republic of Ireland squad.
14 Looked at through the field-glasses, it proved to be the belated courier.
15 One belated vessel, still waiting to finish loading, lay in the harbour.
16 Before it was quite over, a belated cowboy galloped in from town.
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