71 examples of overdue in sentences

Isn't that better than if things would keep sticking there?" Mea, standing at the open window, was beckoning to the approaching group with lively gestures; it meant that the time for supper was already overdue.

From the wire-pullers of the Fabian Society and from the party organizers of both Liberal and Tory party alike, and from the knowing cards, the pothouse shepherds, and jobbing lawyers who "work" the constituencies, comes the chief opposition to this straightening out of our electoral system so urgently necessary and so long overdue.

I was three days overdue at camp and didn't even have my uniform.

The April, 1917, forecast showed that six had been delivered or would complete in April, ten more would complete within the estimated period, and the four remaining would be overdue and would not be delivered until July or August.

My chief recommendation, however, is that I'm eager to get a case, for my rent is sadly overdue.

" "She would probably be willing to give me a good sum for bringing it to her, say, the overdue interest.

Nagendra reluctantly applied to Priya for a refund of the loan, producing Samarendra's note of hand, which was about a year overdue.

At dusk, Woodworth was surprised by the arrival of two forlorn-looking individuals, whom he recognized as members of the Reed-Greenwood Relief, which had gone up the mountain late in February and was overdue.

How come?" "Red Perris is overdue," she said.

She became sick; the landlady had to come up and help her; the doctor had to be sent for, and he had told her that this nervous breakdown had been long overdue; she had been working under too great a strain; it only needed some shock to break her.

In any case he was overdue to die, but hitherto his amazing resolution, and that terrible strength of character that so astounded his porters, had kept him alive and moved his safari on.

Caroline read aloud: "Dear Ruth, I figure that I'm overdue back at Bill's place by about a month" "By two months," corrected Ruth soberly.

For, as I told them when they offered me a vin d'honneur on the occasion of my decoration with the Cross of the Legion, the recognition was long overdue.

But my bed-fellowunder the bedwas a detective; and he spent most of his time during the night pressing pieces of ice against my injured heels, to precipitate, as I thought, my overdue confession.

Captain Bowers, familiar with many cases of ships long overdue which had reached home in safety, still hoped, but it was clear from the way in which Mrs. Chalk spoke of her husband and the saint-like qualities she attributed to him that she never expected to see him again.

This bill has been for some days overdue, and Mr. Solomons is constrained to call upon you for payment at once.

It seemed to me that we passed more up trains than usual, but were not a moment overdue.

But it is not the millionaire who set me thinking; it is the harassed man of business; and what I am wondering is, whether, in sober truth and earnestness, it is possible for him, as he shuts his library door and finds himself inside, to forget his rebuffs and anxietieshis maturing bills and overdue argosiesand to lose himself over a favourite volume.

At that moment the Rector entered, long overdue to give them an hour in Latinan hour of which a goodly part already was gone.

The message said, quite simply: "Your monthly return of men wishing to change their religion is twenty-four hours overdue.

A heavy and long-overdue mail had been found waiting at St. Grégoire.

We are told of the call Morse made upon one pupil whose tuition was overdue because of a delay in the arrival of funds from his home.

But he had not yet begun on his last two articles, which were overdue.

Phoebe had a fine and costly piece of embroidery on hand, commissioned through an 'Art Industry' started at Windermere the summer before; but it could not be finished for some weeks, possibly months, and the money Fenwick proposed to earn during his fortnight in the North by some illustrations long overdue had been already largely forestalled.

And Jerry was some overdue.

71 examples of  overdue  in sentences