be, feel, seem
I don't know what the time is, but it feels quite late.

get, grow
It's getting too late to do anything today.

make sb

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
relatively
a little, slightly, etc.
fashionably
Kevin was fashionably late as always.

for
I'm late for work.

in
He took up music late in life.

into
It was now late into the night.

with
He was now three weeks late with his rent.

an hour, ten minutes, etc. late
The train was 45 minutes late.

leave it rather, very, etc. late
You've left it rather late to start your homework, haven't you?

Late is used with these nouns:
abortion, adolescence, afternoon, antiquity, arrival, autumn, bell, booking, breakfast, brother, capitalism, childhood, delivery, departure, dinner, Easter, emergence, emperor, entrant, entry, evening, fall, father, fee, frost, hour, husband, lunch, marriage, middle age, morning, mother, news, night, onset, painting, payment, penalty, period, pregnancy, rally, replacement, session, shift, sister, spring, stage, start, summer, sun, supper, surge, tackle, teens, trading, try, tulip, uncle, wife, winter, work

Late is used with these verbs:
arrive, awake, awaken, detect, rise, run, sleep, stay, wake