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Example sentences for "leaving him"

  • He waved his hat to them, and sprang high into the air, with the intent to make himself seen; when he came down the boat had shot her length away from the place, leaving him to buffet with the waves.

  • The consequence was that the boats proceeded, leaving him alone on the rock.

  • Then the duke, leaving him, took several turns in the aisle, while the stranger walked on the other side.

  • Then they retired in disorder, leaving him master of the field of battle and of all their artillery.

  • And slipping past her brother she went out, leaving him staring at the bronze Venus sitting on a tortoise, which had been shielded from him so far by his sister's dark head under her soft felt riding hat.

  • The maid went downstairs, leaving him still in his fur coat, idly turning over the visiting cards in the porcelain bowl that stood on the carved oak rug chest in the hall.

  • Every outer thing seemed to have dropped off, shrivelled, leaving him just a condition of the spirit, a state of mind.

  • And if it were dangerous SHE ought not to be going, leaving him behind--that was simply cruel!

  • He had ignored Gerald as much as possible, leaving him alone.

  • But to his astonishment the whole three turned in pursuit of the Levant, leaving him to sail away unmolested.

  • After this stroke of address Alfred took the first opportunity of leaving him, and sent Frank Beverley to him.

  • On leaving him, I called on Therese and informed her of my misadventure of the night before.

  • I told him I was sorry to be leaving him to stay with my brother, because I had fallen in love with his daughter Therese, although I had only spoken to her for a few minutes, and had only seen her head.

  • And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways.

  • Not by being the cause or author of his sin, but by withholding his grace, and so leaving him in his sin, in punishment of his past demerits.

  • Then his disciples, leaving him, all fled away.

  • At last, on one occasion, leaving him, they came not even after a month.

  • With proud lift of head she walked away, leaving him penitent, bewildered, crushed.

  • And she went away, leaving him to fume under this indignity.

  • A flush of rage passed over him, leaving him cold.

  • You told your husband that you had thought of leaving him?

  • She had told him, even, that she had thought of leaving him.

  • There could be no further thought of leaving him.

  • So she made up her mind at last that she would ask her aunt to come to Vavasor, and that she would tell her brother accurately all that she could tell,--leaving him to come or stay, as he might think.

  • What injury shall I do him by leaving him?

  • Now Fra Cipolla, in leaving him at the inn, had bidden him look well that none touched his gear, and more particularly his saddle-bags, for that therein were the sacred things.

  • Whereupon his mother had died, comfortably, leaving him with a completely ruined life.

  • It was a great favour that she did him, leaving him here in charge of the slumbering infant, there was no one else nurse would trust, but she knew that she might Sir Josiah.

  • And then he knows that it is useless, she is leaving him, slipping away, no matter how tightly he may hold her.

  • Not for all the world would he hurt the old fellow's feelings, but he could wish old Markabee safely off to his work in the garden, leaving him here to his dreams in the sunshine.

  • I du notice a great change in Abram, and if what I du hear be half true, that maid of yours hev played Abram a bad trick, leaving him in the lurk like and going and getting sarvice in the big house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaving him" 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:
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