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Example sentences for "leaving behind"

  • As Louis XII's army was continuing its way towards Rome, and he received a fresh order to join it, he took his departure the next day, leaving behind him, Vitellozzo and Gian Paolo Bagliani to prosecute the siege in his absence.

  • A nephew of Laporte named Roland had audaciously carried it off, leaving behind a writing nailed to the gibbet.

  • On the other side he made a dragoon dismount and give him his horse, on which he crossed the river Gardon, leaving behind him on the battlefield twenty-five officers and six hundred soldiers killed.

  • The British, leaving behind it on September 6 the Rosoy-Lagny line, reached in the evening the south bank of the Great Morin.

  • It seemed to the Bishop that, ever since he had first known Mora de Norelle, he had always been riding away and leaving behind.

  • On the 21st of January the Duke of Kent, after a short illness, died, leaving behind him an estimable character, a devoted wife, and a princess who now fills the throne.

  • Tippoo attacked him, but after a severe struggle he was compelled to withdraw, leaving behind him a great number dead and wounded.

  • He was successful: in an hour and a half the French were in full retreat, leaving behind them 3000 killed and prisoners, and some of their cannon.

  • Disadvantageous Aggregate Result of the First Year of the War Thus the severe first year of the war came to an end, leaving behind it, both in a military and political point of view, sorrowful memories and dubious prospects.

  • Thereupon Sulla himself, leaving behind a corps against Carbo, returned to Latium and took up a well-chosen position in the defiles in front of Praeneste, where he barred the route of the relieving army.

  • She died of a broken heart—leaving behind her a male child whom you swore to protect!

  • Currin and the Cadre left for England, leaving behind only a baggage guard under Capt.

  • October 12th, after making our final inspections and collecting blankets, packs and other surplus stores at a convenient barn, that we moved off from Fouquières on a fine Autumn afternoon, leaving behind only 2nd Lieut.

  • The British, leaving behind it on September 6 the Rosoy--Lagny line, reached in the evening the south bank of the Great Morin.

  • Dee and his inefficient, unintelligent skryer then quarrelled, and the latter was dismissed, leaving behind him an unsavoury reputation.

  • Like a ghost he came, and like a ghost he went, leaving behind him a bloody hand still gripping a great knife, or rather a short sword, that was buried in the heart of our poor servant.

  • Bending over them both, the god blessed the child and kissed the mother's brows before he went his way out into space, leaving behind him a trail of song that was sweeter than the perfume of the jasmine.

  • Then the river has to find another outlet, and this happens again and again until it has wandered all over a large area, leaving behind it more and more deposit raised above the sea level.

  • When I was fairly dry we all drank wine together, after which we shook hands and I went out to see the town, leaving behind me, by all tokens, an agreeable memory.

  • She received the last sacraments at his hands, and a few days later breathed her last sigh, leaving behind her, says the Golden Legend, "an odour so sweet that the oratory was perfumed by it for seven days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaving 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:
    before they; bien que; drive away; equal suffrage; fellow countrymen; getting ready; great advance; great light; inch deep; large doses; leaving behind; leaving her; leaving home; leaving school; leaving the; leaving their; leaving them; march against; pressure cylinder; returned the; sufficiently done; vote shall; week days; whaling voyage; what about; when turned