How to Use latter in a Sentence

latter

adjective

• We'll go in the latter half of the year.
• In his latter years he became blind.
• One of the best ways to do the latter, of course, is on a train.
  — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the case of the latter, that still isn't enough to give him a lead.
  — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2020
• To ease the fears of the latter group (What if the next song is bad?
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 31 Jan. 2019
• Biden has a slight edge in the first two states, but the pair are tied in the latter.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020
• The latter is enough to get you through dinner and then lunch the next day.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• The answer to the latter can be just as important as to the first.
  — T.j. Stiles, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
• The first one is a pit bull and the latter was a French poodle.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• In the case of the latter, the experts said, don’t put it off.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
• Much of it, the group predicts, will be via the latter.
  — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2022
• The latter came from a big bag on the front passenger seat.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 16 June 2021
• If the latter is true, what’s the point of having it in the rulebook?
  — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 24 May 2018
• Some elements of the former and none of the latter will do.
  — John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• That latter part of the equation was a question for much of the season.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• The latter two were due to the Vette's stiffer aluminum frame.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2022
• The former may very well be true, but the latter doesn’t have to be.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• Ducks is one of the latter, and marks a new achievement in the memoir genre.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Bell and Brown are gone, the latter traded to the Raiders.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2019
• Indeed, the former goal was, in part, a means to the end of the latter.
  — Jonathan Freedland, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• The latter is also on the dinner menu, served warm and gooey.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2022
• Signs of the latter already had been creeping in this past fall.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2019
• And this fleece blanket comes pretty close to the latter.
  — Rachel Moskowitz, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• The latter is a truth that right-wingers have denied and fought against for decades.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
• For the latter four, making the playoffs won’t be easy.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2020
• The latter are two of the groups worst affected by this crisis.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
• The speed with which the latter has traveled from there to here is eye-opening.
  — New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• There is enough of the former to make up for the latter, however.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 19 Apr. 2018
• Still, Trump sought to meet with Putin in the latter part of last year.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• The latter was perhaps the most ready-to-wear look of all in its balance of edge and ease.
  — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024