leave Examples

[liːv]

[-iːv]

'to leave' UK

Examples of leave in a Sentence

Examples of left
1. The patient's left leg symptoms were nonconcordant with the right leg symptoms.
2. Stephon Marbury (sore left knee) participated in noncontact drills and is expected to play tomorrow.
3. Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet. Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving. ‎
4. The stall on the left is occupied. ‎
5. I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him.
6. Sir W.H.,... expected me to be both omnivorous and omnibibulous; when we rose from his high table and left the room I felt sheathed in an alcoholic mist. --William Manchester, The Last Lion, Visions of Glory, page 886.
7. Soon we'll pass a statue on the left.
8. The experimental broccoli ice cream flavor was left on the cutting room floor after market research.
9. That bucket of raw prawns you left in the sun is a bit on the nose.
Examples of leave
1. Make sure everybody knows the ground rules for the trip before they leave.
2. The United players refused to leave, and a dispute broke out between the players and Chelsea stewards and groundstaff before the incident was resolved.
3. The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. — Palfrey.
4. They disliked the interloper, and forced him to leave.
5. I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
6. English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
7. Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts, For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...
Examples of leaves
1. falling leaves
2. the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch
3. The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
4. I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
5. The leaves of the iris and gladiolus are gladiate.
6. intervenous yellowing in leaves
7. It seems too much like a great tree, beautiful, symmetrical, and full of leaves, but raised or desired only for fruit, yet bearing little, and some of that little not of good quality, but knurly or bitter.
8. lauroid leaves
Examples of leaved
1. [ …] here and there a gray rock cropped out of the ground, and over it the yellow stone-crop and scarlet-leaved crane's-bill grew luxuriantly.
2. For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe.
3. They passed many species they had already collected for the Millennium project — maple-leaved vibernum, steeplebush with spiky stalks of tiny pink flowers, black birch — as well as a particularly impressive specimen of that quintessential Staten Island forest dweller, Automobilius burnedouticus.
4. He replanted 15 heart-leaved plantains in different spots, using local ecotypes obtained from Milwaukee, the better to ensure their adaptability to the site's miniclimate.
Examples of leaving
1. A servant determinately idle, leaving his work, or an able-bodied vagrant, roaming the country without means of honest self-support and without seeking employment, was to be brought before the two nearest magistrates.
2. She's finally leaving her abusive husband — bully for her!
3. Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.
4. I'm completely cool about my girlfriend leaving me. ‎