Belated used in a sentence

Belated in a sentence as an adjective

This is must me talking after a belated xmas dinner.

I'm guessing it was a belated attempt to stifle the inevitable social justice flame war.

Indeed, one wonders whether that revelation might have been the entire reason for this belated post to HN. I don't particularly feel sorry for him, but ESR does get a hard time around here.

The belatedly-destroyed documents might be utterly harmless, but that might not matter.

The reality isn't quite as fantastic, but I appreciate learning the truth over belated disillusionment.

The reality isn't quite as fantastic, but I appreciate learning the truth over belated disillusionment.-Just realized the author is pgbovine -- excellent work!

It looks like this doctor hires one of those reputation management firms, as most Google search results from searching his name are just medical directories that don't point to any of his surgical mistakes or the belated regulatory sanctions he has recently encountered.