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16 example sentences for TARDY, such as:

1. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
2. Two of the pupiles were tardy this morning.
3. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some degree.
4. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy.
5. He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.

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 Meanings and Examples of TARDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tardy
 a.  late; delayed; moving slowly
Classic Sentence:
1  Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
2  He was, in truth, proceeding to Montcalm, fearless of every danger, to claim the tardy escort for which he had before conditioned.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
4  It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
5  Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his appearance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  And also, their tardy slumbers, to some degree.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
7  At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  The factory-bells had need to ring their loudest that morning to disperse the groups of workers who stood in the tardy daybreak, collected round the placards, devouring them with eager eyes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
10  Not less mischievous than doubtful resolves are those which are late and tardy, especially when they have to be made in behalf of a friend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV.
11  He did not know how to study; he had no idea of thoroughness; and with his tardiness, carelessness, and appalling good-humor, we were sore perplexed.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
Example Sentence:
1  Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
2  He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.
3  Two of the pupiles were tardy this morning.
4  We were kind of tardy with the hotel reservation, and the governor's suites are all booked.
5  Unless being precisely on time is important, don't bring up the tardiness issue with an employee who is occasionally late.