Later is an English word with synonyms like future or after. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Later in a sentence
Related words
Later meaning
- comparative form of late: more late
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
Synonyms of Later
Using Later
- The main meaning on this page is: comparative form of late: more late | Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time). | At some unspecified time in the future.
- Useful related words include: future, later on, after, afterward.
- In the example corpus, later often appears in combinations such as: and later, later in, later and.
Context around Later
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Later
- In this selection, "later" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, days, minutes, philadelphia, session, documents and phases stand out and add context to how "later" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 or later and pcs and and a later session starting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "later" sits close to words such as each, set and good, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with later
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery will follow later at a later date. (13 words)
Colin Ebbrell, 56, said he would definitely go out in Liverpool more often and stay later if services ran later. (20 words)
Bell later left local radio and had a "failed attempt" at running a pub before later becoming a driver for Stagecoach. (21 words)
A special constable later phoned her and said a meeting would be set up with the police and the TTC on May 3 at 3 p.m. No one showed up to the meeting — Richardson said she later learned that the special constable forgot to pass along the information. (49 words)
Bales drew a leadoff walk in the third and later stole home to make it a 9-2 game, then Brodee Bartlett hit a double and he later scored on a passed ball to cut it to 9-3. (39 words)
A few years later, they relocated to Provo, Utah, where Edwards’ father was a professor at Brigham Young University’s department of child development and family relations and her mother later taught home economics at Provo High School. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Early round matches have an early session at 7am BST and a later session starting at 12.30pm BST - the later rounds will only have matches in the later session.
Sir Henry and she later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton's anger; he later apologizes and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later.
The College of Philadelphia (later Penn), College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) and King's College (later Columbia College, now Columbia University) all originated within a few years of each other.
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A few days later, he would receive a text message telling him which day he can leave, which could be up to three months later.
A few years later, they relocated to Provo, Utah, where Edwards’ father was a professor at Brigham Young University’s department of child development and family relations and her mother later taught home economics at Provo High School.
A special constable later phoned her and said a meeting would be set up with the police and the TTC on May 3 at 3 p.m. No one showed up to the meeting — Richardson said she later learned that the special constable forgot to pass along the information.
As such, Justice Younge noted that in the court’s considered view, contribution schedules should by no means take ‘precedence’ over later documents to the exclusion of those later documents.
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Bales drew a leadoff walk in the third and later stole home to make it a 9-2 game, then Brodee Bartlett hit a double and he later scored on a passed ball to cut it to 9-3.
Bell later left local radio and had a "failed attempt" at running a pub before later becoming a driver for Stagecoach.
Colin Ebbrell, 56, said he would definitely go out in Liverpool more often and stay later if services ran later.
During the summer holidays, Drew and his best friend, Tee - who later joined him on Quest TV's Salvage Hunters - salvaged oars, bicycles, and badges that they would later sell on the side of the road.
Hatch’s statements would later dovetail with what I would later learn from Seattle MIS veteran Hiro Nishimura, who overlapped with Hatch at Savage.
He later said the “strikes to the groin and abdomen area” were “delivered by Ferguson”, before Beadle later sprayed him with Pava to the face.
He would have an acrobatic effort go into the St. Louis net later on in the 38th minute, but it would later be scratched off due to an offside.
Heyman got on the end of a brutal back pass from Cannon Clough two minutes later, poking the ball past Worth before Maher tucked home a penalty three minutes later won by Hughes’ clever footwork.
How you act on the earlier phases impacts how you will experience the later phases and the more clearly you can see the later phases, the better you will navigate the earlier phases.
In 1969, Bethany married her husband Gerald, and they later began a ceramics business and in later years helped run a dance hall in Fairfield.
Interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery will follow later at a later date.
Common combinations with later
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and later 30×
- later in 23×
- later and 20×
- years later 20×
- later this 17×
- or later 16×
- minutes later 15×
- was later 15×
- days later 13×
- he later 11×