The latter half of the week was fine.

The latter means foregoing certain foods, pleasures, or possessions.

Both the French and the English like to drink, but while the latter prefer beer, the former have a weakness for red wine.

She then gave him a pipe, a honeycomb, and a scrip of deer skin, but she dared not speak her mind, for she suspected that he loved Chloe since he was always in the latter's company.

Tyrosine is similar in structure to phenylalanine, with the important distinction that the latter contains a hydroxyl group in its side chain.

A day is a period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper — the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

Of soccer and rugby, I prefer the latter.

If I were asked to choose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, choose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Brigham Young University (BYU), which operates on four campuses in Utah, Idaho and Hawaii, is a private, not-for-profit school governed by the religious doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons.

I prefer Noh to Kabuki, because the former looks more elegant to me than the latter.