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Example sentences for "leave"

Lexicographically close words:
leaue; leaues; leaueth; leauie; leauing; leaved; leaveing; leaven; leavened; leaveneth
  1. We leave you with all good wishes for the State of California and all her people.

  2. If we shall leave your happy and prosperous State freighted with your good-will and love, as we shall leave ours with you, it will be a happy exchange.

  3. You have well said that the people of Indiana have been kind to me, and if, when my public career is ended, I can return to you the happy possessor of your respect and good-will, I shall not leave public office with regret.

  4. If any one thinks it necessary that a comparison should be instituted between the candidates of the two great parties as to their friendliness to the reforms demanded by organized labor, I must leave others to make it.

  5. I shall leave behind me every good wish for your prosperity, individually as a municipality and as a State.

  6. With all graciousness and friendliness I leave my heart with you when I go.

  7. It happened that the regiment to which my friend Miller was assigned was the last to leave the State.

  8. In the early fight at Donelson he, with the First Illinois Brigade, successfully resisted the desperate assaults that were made upon his line; twice wounded, he yet refused to leave the field.

  9. It is a pleasant condition of things when all classes are prosperous, when the workingman has fair wages that leave him some margin above his daily necessities.

  10. If the others will only leave me alone I'll leave them alone.

  11. But Dan Baxter knew enough to leave the vicinity, and that was the last heard of him for some time.

  12. In the end Dick and Tom received permission to leave camp for an indefinite time.

  13. Anderson Rover was the last to leave the sitting room, where he had been busy writing some letters at the desk that stood there.

  14. I want you to leave Joe Davis and Harry Moss alone," went on Dick, as calmly as he could.

  15. I mean to win and leave that Rover boy so far behind he'll feel sick," answered Flapp.

  16. Did you leave camp of your own free will, Rover?

  17. You have earned your dismissal from Putnam Hall, Flapp, and you leave this camp as soon as arrangements can be made.

  18. I propose to leave quietly, and take Harry and Joe with me.

  19. Were that not so I am sure the snakes would leave at once.

  20. I want you to leave Harry Moss alone," answered Tom.

  21. Pender and Jackson pleaded for another chance, but Captain Putnam would not listen, and in the end the evil-minded cadets had to leave the school, never to return.

  22. Neither your father nor your uncle nor myself will want to leave you out of sight.

  23. She turned to leave the room, with a belligerent swing of her shoulders.

  24. Did you call your father, or rise hastily and leave the room, or what did you do?

  25. Well, Mrs. Betty'll be coming in soon, and I'll leave you.

  26. Thank you; but even so, you might put things away occasionally, and not leave them scattered all over the place.

  27. Those who in making money have been less successful than others, find it convenient to leave all such obligations upon the shoulders of the richer man, and to say 'it's up to him; he can afford it.

  28. I told him that we would leave on Wednesday next.

  29. The former took the opportunity to leave cards on an afternoon when all Durford was busily welcoming Betty at a tea; and was "not at home" when Betty duly returned the call.

  30. You do your part of the business, and leave the rest to the other feller.

  31. Now you leave this to me--I'll have a twitch on old Bascom's nose that'll make him think of something else than ejecting his rector.

  32. In all these texts the immediate transference of authority from the Person of the God-man is most striking; in Peter He inaugurates His great theandric dispensation, and forms the Body which He was to leave on earth.

  33. Leave him the axe and through you come, you that can, or else I'll pull you through!

  34. In this respect, and this alone, I crave the indulgence of the bench, and beg leave to rectify one of my mistakes.

  35. I shall try not to leave them more painful than I find them, Mr. Carlton.

  36. So at last I gave him leave to do as he liked.

  37. You disgrace the parish, and you won't leave it.

  38. Let us kneel together before I leave you, and humbly pray that it may still be so!

  39. We leave him, not without a stain upon his character, but with considerable regret in our minds.

  40. I can leave behind me a name and an example, bad enough in all conscience, but yet not wholly vile to the very last.

  41. Yet the benches were almost as empty as before, the people herding near the porch until entreated either to occupy such seats as there were, or to leave the church.

  42. But I can leave behind me a sign of my sorrow and my true penitence.

  43. But for the present my advice to you is to leave the cur in his kennel, and the lazar in the lazar-house!

  44. I shall simply leave it to the consideration of your worships as men of the world and students of the human heart.

  45. Well, you can't leave them here, can you?

  46. Suppose you take this beaver and drag it down to the place where we leave the creek, and then maybe take the other beaver down there, too.

  47. I'd rather skin all night than leave one beaver over till next morning.

  48. No one could leave the grove without being seen.

  49. Well," said Jack, "we can be pretty sure that the bears won't go away as long as we leave something for them to eat here every day.

  50. It's pretty silly to get angry at these horses because they don't want to leave their range; how could they be expected to know anything about going in one direction or another?

  51. Now, the first thing you want to remember, son, is that you mustn't leave any sign or any scent for the beaver to notice.

  52. I believe that you might trap out all the beaver, except one pair, from a stream, and then leave that stream alone for twenty years and go back there and you'd find just as many beaver there as there were the first time you visited it.

  53. I don't know whether in trimming those sticks you intended to leave those branches sticking out as long as you did, but whether you meant to do it or not, it was just the right thing.

  54. After a time the beaver will, perhaps, leave the pond, and go somewhere else to build another.

  55. Of course, when you set your trap you must be careful not to leave any scent of yourself on it.

  56. At the same time you must skin close to the hide, and not leave any fat on it.

  57. The fact is, that when it comes to beating a horse about the head with a three-legged stool, if that horse is going to leave at all, it's time he was off.

  58. Now pray we all God, the Comforter, Into every heart true faith to pour And that he defend us, Till death here end us, When for heaven we leave this world of sorrow.

  59. Every man can for himself make his own hymn-book, and leave this of ours alone without additions; as we here beg, beseech and testify.

  60. We do not propose to add our own to the hundred decisions which various writers have given to this question, but only to narrate the facts, and leave each reader to come to his own conclusions.

  61. She accompanied him a part of the way to the coast, and took leave of him with many professions of sorrow at the parting, and begged him to come back soon.

  62. It was entirely contrary to military etiquette for an officer to leave his command and go home to his sovereign without orders and without permission.

  63. One fine morning the familiar figure of the sergeant of police appeared with the announcement that Karl 'et sa dame' must leave Paris within twenty-four hours.

  64. And lastly, the great argument that Hungary could not leave legal and constitutional ground, may do very well for British free-traders, but it will never be deemed sufficient in the eyes of history.

  65. They had counted upon a very dictatorial and revolutionary action on its part--on account of the very want of definiteness in which it had been found necessary to leave its competency.

  66. I leave this record, which I trust is imperishable, so that when others come to follow me, they may know that to Earth belongs the honor, if honor it be, of sending to this world its first visitor from the stars.

  67. Hendricks will accompany me, if it seems expeditious to leave the ship, leaving you in command here.

  68. Town people, fearing a crush, hastened to leave home with the lunch dishes unwashed, and look for places to sit during the long afternoon.

  69. Then we'll have to leave the car on the road, won't we, Hugh, when we tackle this big job?

  70. Hugh had but one thought now, which was to speed along at such a clip as to allow him to finally overtake and pass the treacherous Nick, and leave him in the lurch.

  71. That his body was found surprised them, as they thought he had gone aloft in the flesh, the object of the tomb being to mark the spot where he took leave of the earth and would return to it.

  72. Petty annoyances, tyranny, all manner of injustice and even violence would be resorted to, to force them to leave and to drive British interests to the wall.

  73. I cannot leave this subject without paying a personal tribute to a prelate but for whose aid in the House of which he is a distinguished ornament, liturgical revision would, humanly speaking, have long ago come to nought.

  74. Many worse things might happen to the Prayer Book than that the nineteenth century should leave its impress upon the pages.

  75. In taking leave of the Caroline revision, it may be permitted to dwell for a moment upon the serious character of the conclusion reached by the ecclesiastical leaders of that day.

  76. It will probably be wise to leave the language of the Prayer of Consecration wholly untouched, notwithstanding the alleged grammatical error near the end of it.

  77. It's a beastly shame you should be allowed to leave school while I must go slaving on at Miss Gordon's.

  78. I wonder if I ought to leave my visiting card for him," declared Delia, staring at the green marble representation of Cecilius Giscondis, a banker by profession.

  79. He sailed by a very early boat, so that the sun had not yet risen high, as, after watching his vessel leave the harbor, she turned from the Marina to walk back to the Casa Verdi.

  80. Miss Rodgers has given us seniors leave to hold a fancy-dress dance on the 31st of March, from 7.

  81. It is no light matter to decide what you need to take abroad, what you wish to lock up at home, and to leave your establishment in apple-pie order for the use of strangers.

  82. As regards the fifty-six British and American maidens who made up this brisk little community we will leave some of them to speak for themselves in the next chapter.

  83. I'm only sorry we have to leave it so soon.

  84. You're not going to leave me behind at Miss Gordon's?

  85. Leave it to me and I'll try my best to manage her.

  86. They barricade themselves in their bedrooms and have some private fun, but they leave us to do as we like.

  87. Mona out of the dormitory and leave room for Ailsa.

  88. Mr. Carson found Signor Verdi working in his allotment, obtained leave from him to use the skiff, and climbing down the flight of steep steps cut in the rock, reached the cove where the boat was beached on the shingle.

  89. It would have complicated matters very much if we had been obliged to leave you in England.

  90. Now if he speaks in the first person there can, of course, be no uncertainty in the point of view; he has his fixed position, he cannot leave it.

  91. Make use of these looks and gestures, express the story through them, leave them to enact it--and you have a story which in its manner is effectually drama.

  92. But meanwhile the book, the thing he made, lies imprisoned in the volume, and our glimpse of it was too fleeting, it seems, to leave us with a lasting knowledge of its form.

  93. But still, on the whole, the author is inclined to leave Strether alone when the scene is set.

  94. It is with this conviction that I have entered the world, and with this conviction I shall leave it, and in leaving it I will believe firmly that the time will come when the world will acknowledge that "The holy of holies is man!

  95. Owing to his political convictions, he had to leave Russia.

  96. The children were only too glad to leave the dusty, narrow streets of the city.

  97. I must leave it to these worthies to entertain you all the fore part of the day, seeing that I have none at all myself--the lark that rouses me from my slumbers, being an afternoon bird.

  98. As for Bertram, Maturin may defend his own begotten, if he likes it well enough; I leave the Irish clergyman and the new Orator Henley to battle it out between them, satisfied to have done the best I could for both.

  99. In a general point of view, she will leave a great gap in society and literature.

  100. If it don't take, I will leave it off where it is, with all due respect to the public; but if continued, it must be in my own way.

  101. In another part he says, "I go to save you, and leave a country insupportable to me without you.

  102. If you go to Milan, pray leave at least a Vice-Consul--the only vice that will ever be wanting in Venice.

  103. If so, it will probably leave a card at Ravenna in its way to Lombardy.

  104. You'll not get tired and leave us on the way?

  105. But while the children are wending their way up the hill, let us take leave of them for a time, that we may have a peep at one of the rooms of the castle.

  106. They could leave the shoe only one at a time.

  107. In a solemn voice he said, "Everychild, I have come to bid you leave all that has been closest to you and set forth upon a strange journey.

  108. I couldn't leave you there, you know," said Everychild.

  109. He even hoped that after a time the Masked Lady would take some other road and leave them.

  110. And now once again we must leave Everychild and his companions for a little while, and take our place among surroundings at once strange and cruel.

  111. But the troubled expression did not leave Everychild's face.

  112. May your brief sojourn in this country leave you a souvenir as pleasant as the one it has already engraved in our memory and our hearts.

  113. You seem to divine in the spirit that animates you with regard to our continent the mark that your name will leave in history.

  114. I have been told that they rake up a mound of stones with their powerful wings in such a way that by removing some of those underneath they leave the roof above them.

  115. We took compassion on him and did not leave him to face the terrors of the darkness alone.

  116. I made up my mind never from this time to leave the vessel, even for a short time, without putting some one definitely in charge, even if he were an incompetent person.

  117. I, consequently, decided to leave him on board the yacht, instead of the doctor.

  118. The "Aurea," according to the writer of the letter, was at Trinidad in the West Indies, and was expected to leave for England.

  119. Had it not been for this short spell of calm, we should have probably been compelled to leave behind everything we possessed.

  120. No one may leave or board a merchantman after 8 p.

  121. We could then sail away and leave our moorings behind us.

  122. I, therefore, now came to the conclusion that it would not be very imprudent to leave a somewhat incompetent person in charge, as the chances were that he would have nothing to do.

  123. It was my intention to return, if possible, on the following day, with the tents and other stores, and to then leave a working-party on the island.

  124. These men were determined, in an almost literal sense, to leave no stone unturned, and not to abandon that ravine until they had satisfied themselves as to whether the treasure was or was not there.

  125. He counted up his money, of which he had been very saving, and determined to leave Cornwall at once, and shortly after Christmas he found himself in the train bearing him northward.

  126. And I must not leave Brunford--something has told me I must not.

  127. A number of loafers were hanging around, while many had gone so far as to leave their work in order not to miss such a sight.

  128. We'll leave no stone unturned, Wilson, and I'm inclined to think at the end of this election that your man Stepaside will be no longer regarded as a hero.

  129. But he determined to make sure, and so, obtaining leave from his work, he started one morning to Manchester, in order to be present at the trial which was attracting some notice in the county.

  130. He turned as if to leave the court, then paused, and his eyes moved towards his son.

  131. It was a warder coming to tell her that her time was up, and that she must leave him.

  132. I think I will leave you now--that is, unless I can do anything for you.

  133. He had gone carefully into his business matters, and he knew that he would leave her enough to live comfortably.

  134. Had you not better go away and leave me alone?

  135. And so, when a local train left Carlisle towards the station nearest to his mother's old home, it was with a fixed determination that he would not leave Scotland until he had discovered all that could be known.

  136. When he had read the letter, he said he must leave the following morning, and urged me to go back to my home and wait until he could come and fetch me.

  137. I'm not going to leave Perry in the lurch.

  138. Perry said it was impossible, and that they must all take as much provision as they could carry, and leave the mules behind.

  139. And he'll tell you, sir, that he didn't leave it anywhere, but had it took away by the water.

  140. If the journey is so risky that Captain Norton wishes me to leave you here, do you think it likely that he will let his son go?

  141. If we keep together like this, we leave a lot of the camp exposed.

  142. No, because we have a guide with us, my boy, and if I can help it, he will not leave us till he has seen us safely back.

  143. He began to think that the badger, knowing that he had found his match at last, Intended to leave him alone.

  144. If I cannot see Urasato I will at least look upon little Midori's face once more and then take leave of this life for ever.

  145. That she was loth to leave the world we learn by the poem, written in these moments of anguish, which she left with her farewell letter to her mother.

  146. By way of reward for this service sick leave will be granted you, and on your recovery you will be created Lord of Harima.

  147. O Yumi found her thoughts carried back to the infant she had been compelled to leave behind in the old home seven long years before, when she and Jurobei had followed their lord Shusen Sakurai to Yedo.

  148. At this time it happened, one day, that his wife fell suddenly ill and was unable to leave her bed.

  149. When the festival was over and the other worshippers had gone, he lingered around the temple as though loth to leave the sacred spot.

  150. On hearing of the way the mortified swordsman had been bamboozled, he said: "Now leave this to me.

  151. The would-be go-between saw from the expression of Toshika's face that there was little hope in pressing his suit that day, so after a few commonplace remarks he took his leave and went home.

  152. The samurai began to wonder at the strange behaviour of the damsel, who had inveigled him into such a place only to disappear and leave him in solitude.

  153. At last she also fell ill, and after a time became too weak to leave her bed.

  154. Both parents became very anxious for, as the days went by, instead of getting better their daughter visibly wasted away and sometimes could not leave her bed, so weak did she become.

  155. If you will only leave Urasato to me I shall be able to make her confess.

  156. However low and mean I may be, do you think that I am the kind of woman to leave you for another man?

  157. Thank you for your trouble," and the two men took leave of each other, Gemba departing from the house in the same haughty style as he had entered it.

  158. These last moreover would rest for a while and leave off fighting, for they were some distance apart and beyond the range of one another's weapons, whereas those who were in the thick of the fray suffered both from battle and darkness.

  159. I will now leave you, and will not enter into the presence of Achilles, for it might anger him that a god should befriend mortal men thus openly.

  160. Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?

  161. Such was I then, but now I must leave these matters to younger men; I must bow before the weight of years, but in those days I was eminent among heroes.

  162. Sarpedon was stung with grief when he saw Glaucus leave him, still he did not leave off fighting, but aimed his spear at Alcmaon the son of Thestor and hit him.

  163. Attend, henceforth, to your own delightful matrimonial duties, and leave all this fighting to Mars and to Minerva.

  164. Bid him leave off fighting, and either join the company of the gods, or go down into the sea.

  165. Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any service to him or no.

  166. But tell me, and tell me true, where did you leave Hector when you started?

  167. But the son of Saturn made Glaucus take leave of his wits, for he exchanged golden armour for bronze, the worth of a hundred head of cattle for the worth of nine.


  168. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abdicate; abscond; absence; accord; adieu; admission; admit; alienate; allow; allowance; approval; authorization; beat; bequeath; bereave; blow; break; bud; bugger; cast; cede; charter; check; clear; clearance; consent; cut; decamp; default; defect; delete; depart; departure; deposit; desert; devise; disappear; disappearance; discard; disconnect; disembark; disengage; disjoin; disjoint; dispensation; dispense; dissociate; disunite; divide; divorce; drain; draw; drop; eject; emigrate; entail; evacuate; exit; expel; farewell; flourish; forsake; furlough; germinate; get; grant; grow; have; holiday; hooky; isolate; jettison; jilt; jump; leaf; leave; leaving; let; liberty; licence; license; luxuriate; march; maroon; mosey; move; omit; orphan; overgrow; overrun; park; part; parting; patent; permission; permit; pile; privilege; procrastinate; pull; push; quit; release; relinquish; resign; retire; retreat; riot; root; sanction; secede; segregate; separate; sequester; ship; shirk; shoot; skip; slack; slip; split; sprout; stake; start; step; subtract; suffer; sufferance; surrender; take; terminate; throw; ticket; transmit; trifle; truancy; uncouple; vacate; vacation; valedictory; vegetate; vouchsafe; waive; waiver; weekend; will; withdraw; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    leave behind; leave her; leave here; leave him; leave home; leave school; leave the; leave thee; leave their; leave them; leave this; leave town; leave undone; leave you; leaved trees; leaved variety; leavened bread; leaves alternate; leaves lanceolate; leaves more; leaves obovate; leaves opposite; leaves oval; leaves ovate; leaves simple; leaves usually