How to Use behind schedule in a Sentence

behind schedule

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• The project has slipped behind schedule in the years since.
  — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
• And that, in turn, put us behind schedule.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
• Its forces are a year behind schedule.
  — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
• The latter is one day behind schedule.
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
• The project is billions over budget, years behind schedule, and no track has been laid.
  — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 26 July 2025
• The flight arrived eight hours and six minutes behind schedule.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• Toyota was many years behind schedule, and even the lighter car didn’t find many buyers.
  — Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
• Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule.
  — Robert Wyss, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
• 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
• By the time food was served nearly three hours behind schedule, the damage had already been done.
  — Ashley Vega, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• By the time the cast arrived, Cameron was already way behind schedule.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
• More work is slated to begin early next year — far behind schedule.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2026
• While some of the project is complete, construction is still behind schedule.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• The plane left Saturday evening about six hours behind schedule.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2025
• The company has fallen behind schedule and its last two test flights were marred by glitches.
  — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
• That project cost $35 billion and ran seven years behind schedule.
  — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• Yet Starship has suffered a string of testing mishaps this year that have put it well behind schedule.
  — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
• The changes threaten to add more uncertainty to a plan that’s years behind schedule.
  — Loren Grush, Bloomberg, 11 Mar. 2026
• When things fell behind schedule in the studio, Cutrone pushed everyone along.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• That construction is already well behind schedule and could be delayed more.
  — Eric Kober, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
• Both units were supposed to be complete in 2017 and are more than six years behind schedule.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 16 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• The Senate and House are at odds on funding levels and far behind schedule.
  — Mackenzie Weinger, Axios, 25 July 2024
• Some of the problems that have put the program behind schedule and over budget stemmed from how the rocket was conceived.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Costs ballooned, and construction soon fell behind schedule.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• The aircraft was assessed, and the flight landed in Boston two hours behind schedule.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
• Construction and labor delays pushed the final stages of the project behind schedule.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2023
• The furlough comes as the Red Line program remains years behind schedule.
  — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026