Use left in a sentence
Sentences starting with left
- Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. [2]
- Left alone, the two ladies seated themselves in the bower of roses, and for a moment were silent. [11]
- Left Saint Louis three weeks ago on the Pennsylvania. [5]
- Left to tell their story in their own way, those people told it without fire, almost without interest. [5]
- Left alone in the street, Sibley looked back with the instinct of the hunter. [11]
- Left Napier in the Ballarat Fly the one that goes twice a week. [5]
- Left to herself she judged that her daughter would look with more favor upon the brilliant career offered to her by Lord Montague. [4]
- Left alone, she sat in the silence, pondering as she had not pondered in the past three years. [11]
- Left alone, he sat down on the edge of the bed, and, for a few moments, his mind strayed almost vaguely from one object to another. [11]
- Left to herself, Melissa gave herself up to varying thoughts, till Johanna brought her repast. [10]
Sentences ending with left
- Your father needs you--I--I should never forgive myself if you left. [9]
- The first thing you will naturally wish to look at will be the earth you have just left. [6]
- My love to you both, and to all of us that are left. [5]
- But so; and yesterday she told me she had only a hundred dollars left. [11]
- And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
- Any of us would have left. [5]
- If they have, won't the complices get away with that bag of gold Peter Wilks left? [5]
- What'll we do with what little swag we've got left? [5]
- This he did with skill, and the crew of the ship even cheered them as they left. [11]
- Then upon call, Wilson went to the window, made his examination, and said: "This is Count Luigi's right hand; this one, three signatures below, is his left. [5]
Short sentences using left
- She left home yesterday morning. [9]
- Margaret left Washington with regret. [4]
- I left papa well. [14]
- Not a drop was left. [10]
- The left sleeve was empty. [9]
- There are only three left. [10]
- Peronskaya had left them. [2]
- Then he left them. [10]
- We had left the trails. [9]
- Anisya Fedorovna left the room. [2]
Sentences containing left two or more times
- Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
- Kit accompanied them with a little bundle, which he had hung in the carriage when they left home, and had not forgotten since--the bird in his old cage--just as she had left him. [12]
- You see, from what we could make out her father was lame in the left leg and had a deep scar on his left forehead. [5]
- Cynthia and Bob were left alone: left, moreover, in mortal terror of each other. [9]
- The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
- He got what was left of my fortune, and I got what was left of hers. [11]
- His left arm was in a sling, and he wore a large green patch over his left eye; he limped slightly, and used an oaken staff as a support. [5]
- They left near three-quarters of an hour before the train was to start for New York; and for the first quarter of an hour after they left, Denzil was in apprehension. [11]
- He was not there, but I left a note on the table for him, and a few minutes later I left town in Gardiner's wagon. [5]
- The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee. [2]
More example sentences with the word left in them
- Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
- After I left your uncle's house my father took me to Charlestown. [9]
- That would be your legacy and your blessing to her--the death of a murderer; and she would be left alone with the woman that would hate you in death! [11]
- Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
- Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
- He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
- But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
- Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
- There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
- He dragged our young men with him to Russia, and left them to die moaning on the frozen wastes, while he drove off in his sledge. [9]
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
- But I believe you'll find he left for the capital on the eleven o'clock, and if you take the trouble to inquire from Bedding you will probably learn that the Throne Room is bespoken for the session. [9]
- I didn't tell you, because I knew you were afraid to be left alone. [13]
- Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
- I will tell you why I left you. [11]
- I have left you too much alone. [11]
- What was that you told me before we left the old house? [12]
- And I'll give you some advice, Sawlsberry; when you come back for the particulars, fetch a basket to carry what is left of yourself home in. [5]
- On the left you see the judgment at the bridge of Chinvat. [10]
- Why, I thought you never left your office until seven o'clock. [9]
- As soon as you left, it began and went on. [2]
- It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
- Five minutes after you left me they all started for your house, and Lula Chandos said it was the quickest cure of a headache she had ever seen. [9]
- I don't think you knew it, but his first wife was one of your acquaintances-- Mrs. Llyn, whose daughter you saw just before we left Playmore. [11]
- If, Herr Casper, you intend to share with my wife and the twins what is left after the old wealth has gone, unfortunately, I cannot permit you to do so. [10]
- Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
- I declare if you haven't left a good fourth of it in the bottom! [5]
- But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
- I was sure you had left London. [14]
- But you--where are you going, where are you coming from, what have you been doing since you left me, what had you been doing before? [12]
- I have loved you from the moment we first met; and if my life has anything left worth accepting, it is yours. [6]
- There's a place you could hide by the river where no one could ever find you," she said, and left the room. [11]
- It was left you by Becky--by your mother. [9]
- He will feed you bounteously--if--if there is any left after he shall have helped himself. [7]
- That I left you both to yourselves was the best proof I was not neglectful. [11]
- I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
- We left New York Saturday night by the Pennsylvania road. [5]
- But look at yonder figure in the white robe beside the left obelisk--is it not Dion? [10]
- You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [10]
- Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
- She came trembling, yet determined, and she left with her eyes full of joyful tears. [11]
- After all the years that had passed since his wife had left him, Jean Jacques did explode. [11]
- Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
- In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
- That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
- That was a year after you left, now about three years gone. [11]
- I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
- The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
- But do you write Barstow that I have left here for a week or so, and in case he should want me he must write me here, or let me know through you. [5]
- Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about some deeds which he says he left with you, but which I can find nothing of. [7]
- And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
- The last severe wrench was come, and she had left him standing there alone in the cold, divining what was in his heart as though it were in her own. [9]
- At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
- He clasped the wounded arm with his left hand as the surgeon came forward. [11]
- But the Egyptian would, no doubt, have left his spies in the street, and Diodoros went out to see if the road was clear. [10]
- On no account would she have left the capital during this period of decision, and, though her husband earnestly entreated her to go to the springs, whose waters had proved so beneficial, she remained in Brussels. [10]
- The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
- Besides, her father would last forever, if he was left to himself. [6]
- For no consideration would he have left this duty to another, for it was to communicate to Titianus, who had offended him, the intelligence that Caesar had deprived him of the office of prefect, and intended to examine into certain complaints of his administration. [10]
- Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
- A cynical cosmopolitanism would have left her cold, but here, apparently, was a cultivated man burning with a sense of the world's wrongs. [9]
- And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
- Sometimes the others would get up and go away and the couple, left alone, still remained silent. [2]
- Darius left a worthy monument of his greatness in the glorious palace which he built on Mount Rachmed, the ruins of which are the wonder and admiration of travellers to this day. [10]
- The furniture is worth $10,000 or $12,000 and must not be jammed into any kind of a place and left unattended to for a year. [5]
- Fortunately there was work of Richter's and of Mr. Whipple's left undone that kept him busy. [9]
- The landscape still wore an almost wintry appearance when our travelers left Chicago. [5]
- Then, without more words, he turned and left the shed and the house. [11]
- They are compound words with the hyphens left out. [5]
- After a few words of salutation, he said quietly, "Elsie, my dear, your cousin Richard has left us. [6]
- Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
- And not a word would she speak to Chartersea the whole of the dinner, nor look to the right or left of her plate. [9]
- He left a word on paper for me. [11]
- And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
- The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
- The prostrate, quivering woman was left where they had found her. [9]
- The king's lawful wives sat on his left hand; Nitetis next to him, then Atossa, and by her side the pale, plainly-dressed Phaedime; next to this last wife of Cambyses sat Boges, the eunuch. [10]
- There is one witness left, if he will but speak--even the man who married me, the man that for one day called me his wife. [11]
- He left her without so much as a touch of the hand, because she had wished it. [9]
- That movement being without result, with a shade of disappointment on his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. [5]
- As the servant, without further words, turned and left her, she knocked, opened the door without awaiting a reply, and stepping into semidarkness, said softly: "Michel! [11]
- If he left without discovering his loss, and got well on his way, and discovered it then, it would be too late. [11]
- Blenker's division was withdrawn from you before you left here, and you knew the pressure under which I did it, and, as I thought, acquiesced in it certainly not without reluctance. [7]
- Her eyes, wet with unheeded tears, had never left Mr. Bentley's face. [9]
- The Bavaria stands with the right hand upon the sheathed sword, and the left raised in the act of bestowing a wreath of victory; and the lion of the kingdom is beside her. [4]
- I followed them with the pretence of picking up what was left of the ornaments. [9]
- Young Mr. Colfax, with the excess of manner which was his at such times, excused himself and left abruptly. [9]
- The Colonel bowed with that courtesy and respect which distinguished him, and Mrs. Brice left them to go back into the room of torment, and watch by the sergeant's pallet. [9]
- We left him with professions of esteem and respect which were real. [6]
- We left him with only twenty-six dead people to account for, and I felt a tranquil satisfaction in the thought that in so judiciously taking care of No. [5]
- You will share with me the hope that the highwayman who stopped him may be brought to justice, though, indeed, your man Tardif left him behind in the dust. [11]
- The papers left with me do not designate the regiment to which he belongs. [7]
- It was not with me a case of "no shots left in the locker, no copper to tinkle on a tombstone. [11]
- At the opera, with Lord Ossory and Mr. Fitzpatrick, I talked through the round of the boxes, from Lady Pembroke's on the right to Lady Hervey's on the left, where Dolly's illness and Lady Harrington's snuffing gabble were the topics rather than Giardini's fiddling. [9]
- And Venters thought with lightning swiftness, "I've saved her--I've unlinked her from that old life--she was watching as if I were all she had left on earth--she belongs to me! [13]
- I left Charlestown with honor, I studied law at Salisbury in North Carolina, and I have come here to practise it. [9]
- Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
- Why," he continued, with his whimsical look, "just before I left Washington, in comes one of your Missouri senators with a list of Rebels who are shut up in McDowell's and Alton. [9]
- He covered it with his own so quickly that she left it there for a moment, as though paralyzed, while she listened to the first serious words he had ever addressed to her. [9]
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