How to Use latterly in a Sentence

latterly

adverb
  • He devoted his time to painting, sculpture, and, latterly, to gardening.
  • Rooney was an elderly columnist, too, latterly in the news for saying the sorts of things a decaying old coot would say.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • At the wheel is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, first as prime minister and latterly as president.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • Troops from neighbouring Eritrea latterly joined the conflict in support of the Ethiopian government.
    — Eleanor Pickston and Nima Elbagir, CNN, 10 June 2021
  • Lee debuted as a director, before latterly adding production credits.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Like their opposite numbers in the rest of the world, China’s video streamers have had to change tack, emphasizing profitability over user growth and latterly been forced to slash content costs.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But the company had latterly taken the decision to focus on developing a different view of risk and therefore understanding it better.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The move initially attracted press attention and, latterly, that of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise officers.
    — Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • At several investor events in the past, Musk has shown demonstrations of Tesla robotics, first with what many took to be a human being in a robot suit but more latterly with robots that appear to be actual robots.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Two genera only, Elephas and Loxodonta, were latterly contemporaries of man and both of these died out shortly before man's disappearance, leaving no descendants.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • In private life, Malleson was a deadly earnest socialist, a Labour Party activist and (latterly) Communist fellow traveler whose plays were vehicles for his left-wing views.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • But even the roar of that V-12 engine isn’t immune to the guys in the white coats, who have been tweaking and fine-tuning all aspects of the symphony played by the internal-combustion engine and, latterly, its electric successor, for years.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Campbell spent four years at Hulu, latterly as president, before moving to Peacock as president in October 2021.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This year, bilateral relations have worsened further with differences over Russia’s war in Ukraine, and latterly Taiwan, polarizing their leaders.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Ma—Rachel Swart, née Cohn—is the first to depart, newly dead at the novel’s outset in 1986, ravaged by cancer in her forties, and having returned latterly to the Jewish faith of her childhood.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Gota commands the loyalty of past and present soldiers, a band of brothers from his time fighting a horrific, long-running civil war against Tamil insurgents, first as an officer and latterly as the powerful secretary of defence under Mahinda.
    — The Economist, 14 May 2020
  • Hammack spent much of her career on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs, latterly serving as co-head of the global financing group and a member of the management committee—and as such still keeps a close eye on financial markets as a barometer of the economy’s health.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Both his parents played collegiate soccer at George Mason University, with Mark also playing professional indoor football in the 1990s and latterly becoming a coach.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Freije spent eight years at XYZ Films, latterly as Vice President of International Sales and Distribution, overseeing sales and licensing across the film slate.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Five years later he was hired by Leland Stanford, then the president of the Central Pacific Railroad, formerly the governor of California and latterly the founder of the eponymous university in Palo Alto.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2019

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