I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.

I bought a laptop online but it never arrived. I think I've been had!

Okay, September 3. That was just last Monday—Labor Day—so the geocache had been muggled sometime during the past week.

There are, too, less subtle kinds of suggestion — the use of colour words, for instance. Some of us are bad visualists; the poet may describe meadows and lakes, mountains and oceans, but we cannot see them; […]