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Example sentences for "left behind"

  • Then, suddenly bursting out laughing and clapping her hands together, "So that were the girl ye left behind ye!

  • Why,' says I, 'the girl I left behind me!

  • The buffalo we left behind, for his services were not needed, and I wished the wound in his nostrils to become completely cicatrized before I again put him to work.

  • Having filled the tent with the things we left behind, closing it carefully, and ranging chests and casks around it, we were finally ready to be off, each well equipped and in the highest spirits.

  • It would be impossible to take everything; yet the first storm would complete the destruction of the ship, and we should lose all we left behind.

  • As we approached this city a stream of 'rickshas came dashing in our direction commanded by the TALL slim 'lama' I had supposed we left behind!

  • I left behind me both ale and bread; My children hunger and are not fed.

  • I left behind me quilts of blue; My children lie on the straw ye strew.

  • I left behind me the great waxlight; My children lie in the dark at night.

  • LXXXV "Sir Tristram and his lady reached the Hall, When now the sun had Seville left behind.

  • He bade them lower the pinnace overboard, With all things that befitted his design: His arms he left behind, except his blade, And singly for the rocky island made.

  • And so they left "The Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs no other witnesse than the workes which he left behind him.

  • For on that voyage Hythlodaye asked to be left behind.

  • From all the links that bind us; So turn our hearts as on we rove, To those we've left behind us.

  • That, though I mourn, I yet forgive The ruin they have left behind.

  • The Wife loved him too tenderly to be left behind him.

  • His policy lived in his creatures, whom he left behind him in the privy council and in the chamber of finance.

  • At home I left behind a gentle bride, Beauteous as thou, and rich in blooming grace: Weeping she waiteth her betrothed's return.

  • Like wine that by a chemist's art Is through retorts refined, Their spirits to the deuce depart, The phlegma's left behind.

  • Cato, however, as if taking a perverse pleasure in flaunting his meannesses, relates that he left behind him in Spain the horse which he rode when consul there, in order to save the state the cost of carrying him over to Italy.

  • The Lacedæmonians, much against their will, chanced to be left behind, and quite separated from the rest.

  • He caused a law to be passed that no Senator should contract debt[193] to the amount of more than two thousand drachmæ, and yet at his death he left behind him a debt of three millions.

  • The 180 wagons had to be left behind; but the recruits plodded on, and seemed likely to break through to Marmont, when the Czar came on the scene.

  • It had happened about this time that a man of the land of Kittim, 'Uzi by name, whom his countrymen venerated as a god, died in the city of Pozimana, and he left behind a fair and clever daughter.

  • Yea, if but the hoof of an animal belongs to an Israelite, the beast shall not be left behind in Egypt.

  • The Toccata of Galuppi left behind as its relics the melancholy of mundane pleasure and a sense of its transitory existence.

  • When the day for their flight drew near Miss Barrett proposed somewhat timidly that her maid Wilson should accompany her to Italy, but she was gratefully confident that Flush could not be left behind.

  • Gradually he left behind him "this low practical dexterity"; gradually he learnt that "the best way of removing abuses is to stand fast by truth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "left behind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after what you have; crazy woman; dimensional space; for just; leaving the; left behind; left camp; left college; left field; left flank; left free; left half; left her; left here; left him; left home; left none; left tackle; left them; left town; medical college; passing away; sacred literature; small detachments; whose business; will remark