How to Use late bloomer in a Sentence

late bloomer

noun
  • Carr describes himself as a late bloomer to the jazz scene.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Somewhat of a late bloomer, most of his best seasons came after the age of 30.
    Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023
  • Fuentes’ has been successful as a late bloomer to wrestling.
    Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • As far as his recruiting process, Williams was a late bloomer.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In a commercial sense—and only that sense—he could be called a late bloomer, but his best work is from the Eighties and Nineties.
    Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • Pentiment puts you in the leather shoes of one Andreas Maler, a late bloomer from a well-to-do family.
    Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Anthony Averett, a late bloomer in his fourth year in Baltimore, is now the Ravens’ top corner.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Mezilis, a youthful 46-year-old with an unruly mop-top, was something of a late bloomer as a musician.
    Eric Adams, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
  • For someone who began singing at age 3, Maye regards herself as a late bloomer.
    Melissa Errico, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • It’s been a meteoric rise for the East Hartford native, who former coaches say was a late bloomer.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The Hornets would be taking a chance on a player with little production in college, but Jones might be a late bloomer.
    Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
  • And yet, in the football recruiting world, he’s likely considered a late bloomer.
    al, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Asha, a late bloomer working at a neuroscience lab, runs into her high school crush, Cyrus, at a funeral.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Advertisement The ! was a bit of a late bloomer — sprouting up from the period, which along with the comma, colon and question mark had been around for hundreds of years.
    Florence Hazrat, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For the record, McGee's first crush could recite pi to 1,000 digits and Torres was a late bloomer who didn't start tearing it up with the ladies until high school with Sofia, his first love who died of cancer.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Wood, who turns 26 in September, is a late bloomer was too early in his development when acquired.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Schoonmaker, a former high school quarterback, was a late bloomer at Michigan.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Off-the-field issues have made Gregory a late bloomer, and his 2021 production slowed down the stretch amid a knee injury that required an offseason procedure.
    Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Creek was a favorite in the category this year, but the charming series (which grew in popularity every year, thanks in part to Netflix) has been a late bloomer in the eyes of Academy voters.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • As an economic late bloomer, China must use mercantilist methods to climb up global value chains long monopolized by the West.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Pegula, 28, a late bloomer who overcame major hip and knee injuries early in her career, is now 0-5 in Grand Slam singles quarterfinals, losing at that stage in the last three Australian Opens.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And there is Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, a gifted late bloomer who worked as a water truck driver and a sport hunting guide before moving to drawings of Sandhill and Whooping cranes sinuously flowing across the page.
    New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • Williams, a late bloomer who has been developing his skills as a wing player, can make three-pointers as well as score inside, giving him the versatility to play multiple positions.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022

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