behindhand
Example Sentences
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Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did it ever strike you, by the way, how behindhand your countrymen are in the matter of hotels?
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Suppose a crew are backward as oarsmen and also behindhand in condition.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
Spain need not be too discouraged by being behindhand.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Polly, always a little behindhand, hadn’t made up her mind yet what the surprise was to be.
From Little Friend Lydia by Ethel Calvert Phillips
