lately

Definition:
1. In the recent past.

Use 'lately' in a sentence:

• 1. Lately he's not done a bloody thing and it's getting on my nerves.
• 2. "I've found out a thing or two lately," continued the Badger.
• 3. Simon had been away a good deal lately.
• 4. I haven't been sleeping well just lately.
• 5. 'Have you talked to her lately?'
• 6. My back's been giving me gyp lately.
• 7. She feels guilty about spending less time lately with her two kids.
• 8. Boredom has, paradoxically, become quite interesting to academics lately.
• 9. Life hasn't exactly been a barrel of laughs lately.
• 10. Lately he'd been making mistakes; his nerve was beginning to go.
• 11. I haven't heard from him lately.
• 12. I guess I haven't spent much time exercising lately.
• 13. She hasn't been keeping too well lately.
• 14. He's been very slack in his work lately.
• 15. Things have been getting on top of me lately.
• 16. She's been very edgy lately.
• 17. "Have you talked to her lately?"—"Not lately, really."
• 18. Have you seen her lately?
• 19. Lately he hasn't done a thing and it's getting on my nerves.
• 20. Lately, the last month or so, in fact, there have been a lot of problems.
• 21. In fact, Hollywood has been hot on live animals lately.
• 22. She is really been depressed lately.
• 23. I know you've been under a lot of strain lately.
• 24. We've seen very little of him lately.
• 25. She had lately returned from India.
• 26. He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship.
• 27. Dad's health hasn't been too good lately.
• 28. They've really been kicking ass lately — busting places up, harassing everybody.
• 29. I know he's had a hard time lately, but he's certainly milking it for all it's worth.
• 30. My back's been giving me a lot of trouble lately.
• 31. Optimism about the US economy has been a rare commodity lately.
• 32. I've been avoiding my folks lately.
• 33. She's been behaving very oddly lately.
• 34. Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim.
• 35. Have you observed any changes lately?
• 36. It's only lately that she's been well enough to go out.
• 37. There have been strange happenings here lately.
• 38. She's been acting very strangely lately.
• 39. John's been acting very strangely lately.
• 40. She's been having a tough time of it lately.
• 41. I've been feeling under stress lately.