How to Use latter in a Sentence

latter

adjective
  • We'll go in the latter half of the year.
  • In his latter years he became blind.
  • One of the best ways to do the latter, of course, is on a train.
    — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In the case of the latter, that still isn't enough to give him a lead.
    — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Sombr doesn’t seem to care as much about that latter bit.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Biden has a slight edge in the first two states, but the pair are tied in the latter.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In the case of the latter, the experts said, don’t put it off.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The former may very well be true, but the latter doesn’t have to be.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The latter is enough to get you through dinner and then lunch the next day.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • To ease the fears of the latter group (What if the next song is bad?
    — The Editors, Marie Claire, 31 Jan. 2019
  • This latter point is often missed.
    — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
  • That latter ruling … did not stick.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • The latter is a truth that right-wingers have denied and fought against for decades.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • The first one is a pit bull and the latter was a French poodle.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The latter is also on the dinner menu, served warm and gooey.
    — Associate Restaurant Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2022
  • The latter two were due to the Vette's stiffer aluminum frame.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Shildt’s latter point was proven in the bottom half of the inning.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • If the latter is true, what’s the point of having it in the rulebook?
    — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 24 May 2018
  • Indeed, the former goal was, in part, a means to the end of the latter.
    — Jonathan Freedland, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The speed with which the latter has traveled from there to here is eye-opening.
    — New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The running speed of the latter, the zoo said, has been clocked at 43 mph.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The latter was perhaps the most ready-to-wear look of all in its balance of edge and ease.
    — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The answer to the latter can be just as important as to the first.
    — T.j. Stiles, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That latter part of the equation was a question for much of the season.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The latter create the effect of peering through the past to see the present.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The latter is a warm-hearted sendup of morality and the filthy rich.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The two latter nations will face off on Friday.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • This latter view has found a wide footing in more mainstream circles.
    — Ivana Greco, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The former was the second-fewest of his season and the latter was the third-fewest.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The hope is that Covid-19 will morph from the former to the latter.
    — Donald S. Burke, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022

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