LATER in a Sentence

Learn LATER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

379 example sentences for LATER, such as:

1. I'll call you from home later.
2. But I will come to the dream later.
3. Three days later Mollie disappeared.
4. We're going to Rome later in the year.
5. You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.

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 Meanings and Examples of LATER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
later
 ad.  at a time in the future or after the time you have mentioned
 a.  at or toward an end, late period or stage of development
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A minute later we were both in a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  But I will come to the dream later.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  Three days later Mollie disappeared.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
9  Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  Three days later there was a terrible hullabaloo.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  It was a few days later than this that the pigs came upon a case of whisky in the cellars of the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
13  But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
14  It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
15  But a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was the sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
Example Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
16  Stephen died several days later in Whiston Hospital's burns unit.
17  The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.
18  You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.
19  The said weapon was later found in the defendant's home.
20  I rescheduled my doctor's appointment for later in the week.
21  For evil news rides fast, while good news baits later.
22  Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.
23  To begin with he had no money, but later he became quite rich.
24  Yeah, we could leave later - I'm cool with that.
25  We're going to Rome later in the year.
26  Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.
27  I'll call you from home later.
28  Unacknowledged anger can often cause problems in later life.
29  She was later picked up on a country road by a passing citizen, police said.
30  You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.