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Example sentences for "leave behind"

  • And no one would think of casting up to her that she served him with any thought of what he had to leave behind him.

  • For weeks I lived under the belief that I was to be made away by the hangman, and to leave behind me a name that would make every one who has known me shudder.

  • Chiltern and Violet will have enough; and of what use would it be to such a one as I am to have a sum of money to leave behind me?

  • To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.

  • To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

  • To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.

  • To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.

  • Our fortune we leave behind us; our honors and rank return to such as gave; even our reputation, the good or ill men thought we were, clings to us no more.

  • But my guests I leave behind me; Listen to their words of wisdom, Listen to the truth they tell you, For the Master of Life has sent them From the land of light and morning!

  • You must have something that you can't leave behind.

  • But suddenly she said in a surprising voice: "You haven't a photograph you could spare, sir, to leave behind?

  • Defn: To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.

  • Defn: To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

  • Defn: To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.

  • We leave behind us Butrinto, happier at least in this, that there no promise of later days has been broken.

  • We leave behind us Prevesa, where, till almost within our own century, Saint Mark still held his own, hard by the City of Victory of the first Emperor.

  • What man or woman is there, however humble be their sphere of action, but desires most earnestly to leave behind a good and honored name?

  • Awaiting his sword," which he had been obliged to leave behind on entering.

  • Freedom was gained, although not without the sad loss of her two older children, whom she had to leave behind.

  • Fortunately, in emancipating himself, he also, through great perseverance, secured the freedom of his wife and six children; one child he was compelled to leave behind.

  • Before escaping," he "dared not" even apprise his wife and child, whom he had to leave behind in the prison house.

  • He was the father of two small children, whom he had to leave behind.

  • We breakfasted at Lewisburg on the 11th of November, and were very glad to leave behind us the most fretful stage company we were shut up with in all our travels.

  • Perhaps no country has ever possessed a public man, of great powers, and involved in all the remarkable events of its most remarkable period, who has had industry enough to leave behind him a similar record of his times.

  • All these good things, except the wine and crackers, we found it expedient to leave behind, from place to place.

  • I leave behind me worthy one emotion of regret?

  • I leave behind me the scenes, the objects, so long associated with pain; but from pain itself I cannot fly: it has become a part of myself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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