use late in a sentence.
They looked everywhere for his late (yes, his _late_) companion; but she had vanished.
Hobler replied that the loss of the title was not by the late Lord Mayor but by the _late_ Prince of Wales.
Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_."
Porges had arrived a term late in our class, so had ground to make up socially.
"I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.