How to Use behind schedule in a Sentence
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The work at the site resumed Monday, Langston said, and is about three to four months behind schedule.
—Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
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By the time the cast arrived, Cameron was already way behind schedule.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
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Head coach Kalani Sitake this week acknowledged the team was behind schedule at this point in the year in their growth.
—Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
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The new crew took off around 9 p.m. and landed in Shanghai about six hours behind schedule.
—Aaron Cooper, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
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Both units were supposed to be complete in 2017 and are more than six years behind schedule.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 16 June 2023
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But all three of those projects are already behind schedule.
—Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
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If Newcastle dropped out of the Premier League, the whole project would fall years behind schedule, at best.
—Joshua Robinson, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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By the time food was served nearly three hours behind schedule, the damage had already been done.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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But the rain means the farm is about a month behind schedule, and Yerena won’t know the full state of the strawberries until the fields dry out more.
—Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
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The Senate and House are at odds on funding levels and far behind schedule.
—Mackenzie Weinger, Axios, 25 July 2024
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They're set to arrive about three hours behind schedule.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
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The flight arrived eight hours and six minutes behind schedule.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
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The new trains now are slated to enter service in 2024, at least three years behind schedule.
—Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
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In fact, a large proportion of the big components of the machine were behind schedule by a year or two years or even more.
—Charles Seife, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
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In a statement, a Delta spokesperson said the flight arrived in New York City about 90 minutes behind schedule.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2024
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While some of the project is complete, construction is still behind schedule.
—Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
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The recent cold weather put us behind schedule so don’t put these plantings off any longer.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
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The videos posted to social media of Neom don’t dispel concerns that the city is behind schedule.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
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More units are under construction – but are well behind schedule and now mired in red tape.
—Nick Watt, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
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But by the time that deadline rolled around in spring of 2021, Bernalillo County had fallen far behind schedule.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 19 July 2022
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The first of Vogtle’s new units finished 7 years late and the second new reactor is more than 6 years behind schedule.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
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The harvest began in August, about a month behind schedule.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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When things fell behind schedule in the studio, Cutrone pushed everyone along.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
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The 75th Primetime Emmys aired last night, behind schedule because of the actors and writer strikes last year.
—USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
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To no one’s surprise, the project went massively over budget and years behind schedule.
—Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
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In 2008, with the project tens of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule, NCSX was canceled.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2024
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More than 3% of kids were behind schedule on their vaccinations, up 0.4% from the year before.
—Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
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The company has fallen behind schedule and its last two test flights were marred by glitches.
—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
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However, both are costly and years behind schedule for a crewed launch.
—John Kross, Space.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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The San Diego Union-Tribune reported later than flood-control and other critical work was badly behind schedule.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
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