Example Sentences

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In fact, cars are the johnny-come-latelies of highways.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011

To make matters worse, Rival Joe DiMaggio was having a big season, and such talented johnny-come-latelies as Ralph Kiner and Jackie Robinson were making the headlines.

From Time Magazine Archive

That it was the Owenses who had got involved in this nonsense, rather than some flibbertigibbet johnny-come-latelies, counted for a lot, for the Owenses were respectable and respected.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Its specialty magazines, such as Telephony, AT&T Technical Journal, Telephone Engineer and Management, are decades old; they make computer publications like Macworld and PC Week look like amateur johnny-come-latelies.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

Though relative johnny-come-latelies in the Legion of Doom, they were considered some of LoD's heaviest guys, into the hairiest systems around.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce