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Example sentences for "lest perhaps"

  • Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

  • And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.

  • Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

  • But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

  • Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all nations.

  • Lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

  • Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

  • Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

  • But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.

  • The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.

  • And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lest perhaps" 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:
    battle against the children; capital invested; chattels personal; fool enough; good habit; great anxiety; guarded against; hardly know; headlong speed; heavenly love; immediately began; lest haply; lest perhaps; lest they; lest thou; miles across; oiled silk; slow oven; twelve months; vertical direction; visited annually; with four; wold haue; young gentlewoman; young orchard