behindhand

How To Use behindhand In A Sentence

• He is never behindhand in offering advice, ie is always eager to advise.
• They would stay three hours behindhand for the conceivable future. PROSPECT HILL
• These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however like a few in England who are a century behindhand, thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains. A brief essay on the general attitude of common folks towards the natural world inspired by a passage in a book by Charles Darwin, Esq.
• I forget now where we were at noon on the second day, and where we ought to have been; but I know that we were scores of miles behindhand, and that our case was growing worse every hour. The Holly-Tree
• But, time and tide having waited impatiently in the wings, occasionally shaking their watches, I had really better get on and do some work before my next happy hour of the day finds me seriously behindhand.
• Because I'm behindhand on the particular thing in question I've thought of just letting it go.
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• Everything is behindhand for the opening ceremonies of Thursday, but as they are not the important ones, little annoyance is expressed.
• I have been behindhand with book buying 'cause of moving house, but I will very soon! be buying Magic Under Glass, Guardian of the Dead, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. What authors can and can't do (more on whitewashed covers)
• But instead of waving a baton he turns a beam of rosy light upon any region that is running ahead of the rest, and a beam of blue light upon those who are behindhand.