BEHINDHAND in a Sentence

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Sonya was finishing dressing and so was the countess, but Natasha, who had bustled about helping them all, was behindhand.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEHINDHAND
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behindhand
 a.  behind schedule
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1  If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Sonya was finishing dressing and so was the countess, but Natasha, who had bustled about helping them all, was behindhand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
3  And because Rome at all times, whether from chance or choice, followed all such methods as are necessary to attain greatness, in this also she was not behindhand.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII.
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