How To Use Tardy In A Sentence

This woman, dressed in a headscarf, long peasant dress and sweater, stands with her arms folded in front of her as if she is slightly cold or perhaps waiting for a tardy child.
Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
The other upside was that any school official who called my house to ask why I was tardy got assurances from ‘my mom’ that it was all her fault.
The result is a good, yellow-brown mustardy colour that is rather different to that obtained by straight sepia toning.

The agency was heavily criticised for its tardy response to the hurricane.
tardy children are sent to the principal
I didn't just think all of this, I talked it through to myself, a mustardy mingling of words and ham. GALILEE
She is grabbing a bolt of mustardy printed silk and here again I ask you, have we ever seen Nina in yellow? Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 4, "All About Nina"
Another mustardy taste sensation is provided by the Japanese daikon, or white radish, which can be sown in both Spring and Autumn in this area.
It is dressed with a lively, mustardy vinaigrette and gigged with major-league lardons, cubes of crisped lean bacon that also work as a garnish to the good baked potatoes.
Since it omitted adulterine bastardy, and required a subsequent marriage, this law had quite limited effects.
But he was very tardy and unorganized, throwing off my schedule considerably…
My teacher, Mr. Zajicek, didn't ask any questions; he didn't even send me to the office for a tardy slip.
Indeed, most people of any age would note the entrance of a tardy attendee.
They live over the mountains and they have dastardy orgiastic rites and eat babies sometimes. From the mouth of babes
Saxophonist Greg Tardy provides a good foil with some subtly understated and nostalgic lines that catch the mood of the night.
Clafoutis (klah-foo-TEE) is a simple-to-make, country dessert from France, in which fruit is baked in a custardy batter. Archive 2008-09-01
The Guardian details a number of raw humint reports on Iranian dastardy, then makes a curious claim for its other sources: Welcome to Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque
On one trip in Africa, a tardy photographer was left behind and had to catch us up in the next country.
She said government alone was not responsible for combating the disease and she described the private sector's response as "tardy". ANC Daily News Briefing
One of them kicked a car that was just a little tardy in clearing the route. Times, Sunday Times
I had risen early, and though I had made an unusually careful toilet, calling Yorke to my aid to see that every lacer was fresh and securely tied, and my buckles shining, yet I had made much haste also, not knowing at what hour mademoiselle proposed starting, and fearing greatly to annoy her by being one moment tardy. The Rose of Old St. Louis
They say it would be within the secretary of state's discretion to ignore those ballot; one, because the hand recounts would have been conducted in a tardy fashion; and two, because the hand recounts will have been conducted in a tardy fashion and, two, because they would have been conducted in what they term a flawed fashion. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Meets to Consider Manual Recount - November 14, 2000
Mine doesn't have any custardy thing going on though. Fresh Blackberry Kuchen
A pork chop sandwich with chow-chow—a mustardy relish common in parts of the South—is juicy and sloppy $8.50. A Southern Shortlist
With coffee comes cannelés those little custardy "corks" with a dark caramelised shell, a speciality of Bordeaux that go so well with any alcohol or caffeine-led drink. Evening Standard - Home
It has been a long time coming and since AMD began its head-to-head battle with Intel's Athlon processor two years ago, this response is very tardy.
Students who are tardy to school for a third time receive $165 citations from Whittier, California, cops.
Mr. Hicks also has a way with vegetables: The JWF Salad $9 is a mix of shredded carrots, bits of cauliflower and mesclun tossed with a mustardy dressing. City Hub for Pub Grub
We cannot allow this dastardy act to go unpunished. WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming
The natural remedy for the permanent decrease of the native fever, is the clearing up and cultivation of the land, which will be for some time yet to come, tardy; as emigration to Liberia is very slow, and the natives very unlike those of Yoruba -- cultivate little or nothing but rice, cassaba, and yams, and these in comparative small patches, so that there is very little need for clearing off the forest. Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
She broke up with me via a tardy phone call and letter for my birthday in May 2004 (a month late) and I haven't spoken to her since.
He praises the president for his action on Darfur, but laments the tardy and inadequate response to the overall situation.
Residents of East London and Umtata are ticked off over their tardy city hall clocks, while the timekeepers in Queenstown and King William's Town CBDs are steady as ever.
The huge, tender perfectly cooked chop was served on the bone, next to fresh sauerkraut with a mustardy tang.
The fiction of a tardy repentance absolved the fame and the soul of her deceased husband; the sentence of the Iconoclast patriarch was commuted from the loss of his eyes to a whipping of two hundred lashes: the bishops trembled, the monks shouted, and the festival of orthodoxy preserves the annual memory of the triumph of the images. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He was abroad at the time of the party and nobody knew if he would manage to make a tardy arrival. The Sun
Puerto and noology, or the distance between the discursive processes of the media and the material process of 'tardy' (i.e. dysfunctional) Spanish justice and the manner in which in the spectacle it has been played out, so that the old ways and law of old Europe and ideas like the rule of law have become expedient and are forgotten so that 'law' simply becomes a servant of the pure functionality of preserving the integrity of the investment of state and capital; Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
It is a dire coach company in the UK, to be avoided at all costs for their provision of uncomfortable seats and tardy services.
I threw the maps on the mustardy hot dog wrappers, snapped off the light, and slammed the car into reverse. LEGAL TENDER
Next week I'll be less tardy and hopefully will get a spot.
Do please forgive this tardy reply.
Cauliflower has quite a subtle flavour, but it's unmistakably mustardy which is why the sauce for cauliflower cheese benefits from a good dollop of Dijon and is capable of being luxurious. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
For these reasons, plus the fact that mesophase transitions and unit cell size equilibrations can be tardy, quantitative comparisons of the Persson et al. study and the current study are not warranted.
He doesn't eat the notoriously ass-smelling South Asian fruit called durian because he wants to shock - he loves the stank spine ball for its custardy consistency and nutty taste, and he revels in the rarity of cutting open a ripe durian while floating downriver on a houseboat, as he did in one episode from Indonesia. Forbes.com: News
Talking out, skipping class, being tardy or disrespectful are no more acceptable for work-inhibited students than for any others.
Also, I have also just discovered not but a few weeks ago when I found the cutest mustardy yellow cropped cardigan at Target ! of all places, that it looks absolutely excellent with my Turquoise poplin rouched-waist dress. Crowdsourcing Color Choices - A Dress A Day
Although the president said he would return to the Gulf Coast tomorrow, his initial response was deemed tardy and inadequate by many observers.
A scone is much closer to a cookie than a piece of custardy french toast, after all! Snickerdoodle Scones | Baking Bites
The bell rings its ugly sound and footsteps speed in the halls, the footsteps of tardy children running to class.
Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared.
always tardy in making dental appointments
the detention of tardy pupils
In lots of cultures around the world, being tardy is NOT a sign of disrespect at all. Dealing With The Tardiness Of Others | Lifehacker Australia
He also missed three races at the recent Chester May meeting again blaming transport woes for his tardy arrival. The Sun
was reportedly late, extremely tardy, which is not exactly an innovation in the annals of rudeness. StarTribune.com rss feed
He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.
He also missed three races at the recent Chester May meeting again blaming transport woes for his tardy arrival. The Sun
Most bread puddings have a custardy base made of milk and/or cream and eggs, similar to the mixture that french toast is soaked in before cooking it. Cream Cheese Bread Pudding | Baking Bites
Rosemary was frequently absent or tardy and alternated between verbally abusing her teachers and flat-out ignoring them.
The custardy portion of the clafoutis was smooth, soft and had notes of both egg and vanilla. 2009 August | Baking Bites
I've been tardy in finishing the New York photo scans… be patient with me… they will come sooner or later.
(Note the discrimination against the "unchaste" woman in the statutory law; whether this scruple was closely adhered to by the local courts in bastardy actions is uncertain, but as noted, there was no reference to the previous character of the mother in any of the southern Avalon cases herein.) Gutenber-e Help Page
KeKe Tardy's basket with 4: 59 to gave the Lady Tigers a 26-15 advantage.
The harsh mustardy flavor was gone and the taste was clean crisp, and mild!
He was abroad at the time of the party and nobody knew if he would manage to make a tardy arrival. The Sun
The Medium: There were three -- a kind of tardy assent. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert
This tardy favourite of fortune-hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I can remember of the sea-thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house. The Silverado Squatters
A bankrupt political system has been a convenient peg on which to hang the blame for a consistently tardy response to humanitarian need.
June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist. Roof and Meadow
Dinner was somewhat delayed on account of David's rather tardy arrival.
The 'custardy' taste comes through very strongly; to me there is a pronounced vanilla flavour even though I only used 1 teaspoon but I did use very expensive extract. SHF: Dark Chocolate Custard in Almond Shortcrust Tarts
Not surprisingly, the notoriously tardy musician is late.
Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship" [Chrysostom]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The unions make a strong accusation that companies have been tardy when it comes to financial participation.
And in anguished silence should they bear the punishment he would mete out to them, or else in no less anguished speech themselves proclaim their own dastardy to the world. The Snare
Tardy for the Party was soooo much better bren Says: Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Watch: Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, ‘Money Can’t Buy You Class’
Here in Britain, the government response was similarly tardy.
Apologies if updates to this site or responses to e-mails are a bit tardy at the moment, I am in Venezuela working on some stories at the moment.
The company is responsible for the tardy roll-out of broadband services in Britain according to a report out today.
She hiccupped, her hand too tardy to reach her mouth before the din was out. THE HELLBOUND HEART
Thanks for the email and sorry about tardy reply, just out of five weeks in Afghanistan where I'd no access to this email address.
The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
His looping, often tardy swing makes solid contact against little other than hanging off-speed pitches.
It was splendid, served on a bed of crisp endive garnished with pink peppercorns and a hot, sweet mustardy dressing.
Viewed in color, the beauty queen sits on a mustardy leather sofa not always with her legs crossed. -And Lurking Behind Quasar 3C295 . . .
One of them kicked a car that was just a little tardy in clearing the route. Times, Sunday Times
He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.
Despite his significant profit and success in South Africa, Johnston appears to be tardy about settling debts in Scotland.
Not as mustardy as the French version, but delicious nevertheless.
This tardy favourite of fortune -- hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I can remember of the sea -- thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house. The Silverado Squatters
It can use fuelling trucks but the trucks delay flights because of tardy, lazy drivers.
‘First meal at a fine restaurant,’ I speculated to myself, savoring a custardy bite of 1015 onion flan and spearing a spring onion, its green top squiggling across the plate and its tart beurre blanc gleaming in the sepia-toned light.
Judge Schiller concluded his ruling: "With arguments hard to resist, the movant correctly insists, his joinder was tardy, and so the third party, complaint is hereby dismissed. Court Jesting: These Sentences Don't Get Judged Too Harshly
The ringing of the tardy bell broke the strain and she quickly slammed her locker shut.
There are three other flavours: English salad, continental salad with lollo rosso and rocket (= arugula) and things like that, and oriental greens with a lot of mustardy things. Jean's Knitting
They're very strict about being absent and tardy.
The sure signs of the collapse are everywhere - nothing is moving; projects are not progressing; whatever work takes place happens at a tardy pace.
Yet because the government has been tardy in its response, the initiative was lost, and it's likely the current economic malaise will only get worse.
Two of the pupiles were tardy this morning.
Behind Kellen, the burly armsman dressed in purple-and-maroon livery and bearing nothing more lethal than an ornamental halberd dripping purple-and-maroon ribbons shoved another man whose only crime was in being a little too tardy at clearing the path. Tran Siberian
Lots of sweet, mustardy juices here to spoon over the roast pork. Nigel Slater's Christmas recipes
Those amorous nations were consistent; with them all was God, even Fear and its dastardy, even crime and its bacchanals. Seraphita
That establishment will avoid to all travellers, visitors of that sepult city and to the artists (willing draw the antiquities) a great disorder occasioned by tardy and expensive contour of the iron whay people will find equally thither a complete sortment of stranger wines and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables, coach houses, the whole at very moderated prices. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
Quaker creditors showed great tolerance to those who were tardy in paying their bills.
I now view the American military with awe and admiration: it is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response.
As the scale of carnage became clear and the government response was seen as tardy, TV news anchors and reporters dropped reserve in favour of stinging comments from the heart.
On one trip in Africa, a tardy photographer was left behind and had to catch us up in the next country.
Once she had brought him to a tardy realization of her superiority over Constance Stevens, by outsinging the latter, along with all the other contestants, she was certain that admiration for herself as a singer would blot out any unpleasant impression he might earlier have conceived of her. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore
The High Court judge recently criticised the tardy process and said taxpayers were footing the bill, including legal costs in successful claims.
May I also bring your attention to the comments made by your mates after the body was taken away the death in custardy jokes. Anarchy In The Uk « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The law is often tardy in reacting to changing attitudes.
It's impolite to make a tardy appearance.
What needs to made clear at this point is some assumptions that lie behind this picture of tardy, incompetent, and detached management of the company by the shareholders.
We apologize for our tardy response to your letter.
At its core a pavlova is a meringue nest, into which a layer of custardy-type filling is nestled, and then topped with whip cream, and traditionally garnished with fruit, particularly tart berries. Archive 2009-07-01
Dinner was somewhat delayed on account of David's rather tardy arrival.
Ninety percent of the customers at Riva seem to end up with pizza at one point in the meal, and even in a city saturated with new pizza concepts, Travi's pies have their niche - crusts thin and pliable as shirt cardboard, bottoms annealed shiny and black by the heat of the brick oven, and sparingly topped with things like tomato and buffalo mozzarella, underflavored meatballs, shrimp "scampi," or potatoes and Fontina cheese, a concoction that turns out to resemble a custardy French gratin plopped down on a crust. LA Weekly | Complete Issue
The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates. Thais
That is no excuse, though, for the tardy international response to a disaster which was not hidden from view but unfolded beneath our very eyes.
This is despite the introduction of late payment legislation three years ago that, in theory, allows a supplier to hit tardy payers with interest penalties.
One of them kicked a car that was just a little tardy in clearing the route. Times, Sunday Times
You might want a sparkling Bibb lettuce salad, too, mined with hearts of palm and dressed in mustardy vinaigrette.
He simply took the little blue tardy notice and marked something off on his clip board.
In my years at Rio Rancho High School, I've been tardy to class and been busted for dress code, receiving my fair share of hours in after-school detention.
He spread them violently and with little preamble thrust himself into the closest of all connections, even hurting her a little, though she never could be called tardy in response, and she approved of this new brutality, at the outset anyway, as an appropriate sequel to her brush with dying. The Houseguest
Or if the tardy wife would just serve dinner on time, her husband would cease bloodying her nose.
Dinner was somewhat delayed on account of David's rather tardy arrival.
Collum, who had as of late been pathologically tardy, arrived last, his hair disheveled, but his suit in irreproachable order.
In the childhood game ‘Simon Says’, those too tardy about following the injunctions of the leader are kicked out of play.
Jasper started to his feet, unable to remain sitting in the midst of so much dastardy. Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger!
Sometimes 'custardy' desserts don't have a pleasing mouth-feel that turns people off. Archive 2006-01-01
And finally, the en banc Sixth Circuit rejected Secretary Brunner's arguments that the GOP had been guilty of "laches" - an equitable doctrine which basically says that if you've been tardy in asserting your rights, you may have forfeited them. Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
So I beg your forgiveness for being tardy with mail.
It was only a well-deserved green custardy face. The Sun
A GAO report recently called the Administration "tardy" even in securing radioactive materials in the United States. James Boyce and Paul Abrams: George Bush: A Failed Presidency That Broke Faith with the American People
She looked far more fetching in person than she'd appeared in the transmissions enthroned on her mustardy leather sofa. -And Lurking Behind Quasar 3C295 . . .
The province's bursary payments had been "tardy" in the past, but this was the first year the university had not been paid, he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
We were kind of tardy with the hotel reservation stuff, and the governor's suites are all booked. Day in the Life of an Idiot
Add the diluted besan and on low-medium heat, cook it, stirring often, till the besan cooks into a thick "custardy" consistency. (you might want to taste it to make sure that the "raw" taste is gone). Archive 2006-01-01
Coming down the stairs, half dead in my dressing gown I saw the last of the men in orange rifling through the kitchen drawers, presumably searching for a tardy lemon reamer or rogue potato peeler.
Popular in much of Eastern France, these sausages are cooked by poaching in water or red wine before being served with a sauce, or a potato salad, or cold, sliced and seasoned with a mustardy vinaigrette and sliced onion.
Society's tardy recognition will not go unappreciated.
The boss is unsatisfied with the tardy tempo.
It is hard, dry and astringent when immature, but after a mysterious ripening process called bletting, its cell walls break down, its tannins are reduced, and its pulp turns brown and custardy. Lunch Room Chatter: Produce is not downloadable
The Jim Muldowney trained Aparelho was the warm 6/4 favourite for this event but after a tardy enough start was always playing catch-up.
At its core a pavlova is a meringue nest, into which a layer of custardy-type filling is nestled, and then topped with whip cream, and traditionally garnished with fruit, particularly tart berries. Berry Pavlova with Rhubarb-Lime Custard Filling
Strains of Sinatra's signature tune would have completed the snapshot of Britain's tardy and most controversial swimmer.
custardy" (in a quiche-y way), rather than remaining a thick sauce. MetaChat
It was splendid, served on a bed of crisp endive garnished with pink peppercorns and a hot, sweet mustardy dressing.
The ambassador's only doubt was whether ‘such tardy recognition’ of Chaplin's undisputed and long-held talents would be desirable at this time.
There was no indication that these paltry and tardy gestures have had any effect in dampening the mass protest movement.
She pointed again at the half of a roast beef sandwich, with a single mustardy bite taken out of it. CODE MUSTARD • by Chris Allinotte
Their christening has been a tardy one, for who can tell what ages have passed since they first came into being? Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
Do please forgive this tardy reply.
a tardy dryer in oil unless thoroughly edulcorated, and does not work in water with the entire fulness and facility of cochineal pigments. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Mr. Talbot's desire to be away was a surprise to him, for he was in difficulties how, even in that enormous hall, to dispose of all who claimed by right or by favour to witness what he called the tardy fulfilment of judgment. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
The four AMCs have been tardy in valuing and auctioning off state assets, in large part due to the government's fear of selling them off on the cheap - especially to foreigners.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
I feel a little bit like a commercial using the word luscious, but this cup of custardy tofu, dressed with a thin layer of light soy sauce really was luscious. Archive 2007-11-01
My first meeting was drawing to a close, the participants slinking out to Starbucks - a plan ruined by my tardy arrival, which meant they were doomed to repeat the salient points.
Dinner was somewhat delayed on account of David's rather tardy arrival.
Do please forgive this tardy reply.
Although the West Lothian club have hardly been tardy with their hiring and firing in the past, they could point to some significant mitigating factors in defence of their abject start to the season.
We arrive too late to know if Feargal and the gang performed an ironic Here Comes The Summer, but thankfully we're not too tardy for Teenage Kicks - it's so hard to beat.
In an effort to hurry along tardy golfers and call a halt to five-hour rounds, hundreds of British courses are introducing a speed penalty.

How To Use Tardy In A Sentence

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