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Example sentences for "the left"

  • XXXIV They drove by the level road along the valley to a distance of a few miles, and, reaching Wellbridge, turned away from the village to the left, and over the great Elizabethan bridge which gives the place half its name.

  • Turning, he saw over the prostrate columns another figure; then before he was aware, another was at hand on the right, under a trilithon, and another on the left.

  • The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

  • To the left, certainly, the left; I remember his pointing with his wooden sword.

  • Gurth was hurried along agreeably to this mandate, and having been dragged somewhat roughly over the bank, on the left-hand side of the lane, found himself in a straggling thicket, which lay betwixt it and the open common.

  • At the end of the lane was the blue glimmer of the river; to the left, standing in front of a clump of oaks and maples, he saw a long tumble-down house with white paint peeling from its clapboards.

  • We each held ready to use our various armaments, the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right.

  • The attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could.

  • He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good deal to the left.

  • The mounts of Condamine and Fontenelle remained-- one on the right, the other on the left.

  • At this moment, to the left, lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent.

  • To the left ran a line of mountains capriciously shaped, lying in the full light.

  • If the map were turned upside down, showing the moon as we see her, the east would be to the left, and the west to the right, contrary to that which exists on terrestrial maps.

  • And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

  • I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  • And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

  • And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

  • They had come to the gate, and as she turned to the right he pulled her round sharply to the left.

  • Ariel dropped her parasol upon a marble-topped table near the door, and, removing her gloves, drifted into a room at the left, where a grand piano found shelter beneath crimson plush.

  • Back room, counter on the left," she said.

  • In the far room to the left," and he pointed to a distant corner.

  • I went to the fourth counter to the left, and showed my sample to a salesman.

  • I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople, around the counters and tables filled with goods, to the far room to the left.

  • All you've got to do is to turn to the left, and in ten minutes you will see the lights in my sister's house.

  • On the left of the Ruler was placed the Tin Woodman, whose metal body had been brightly polished for this event.

  • The gas lamps were already lighted; there were streets to the right, and streets to the left, and streets crossing each other, for mile upon mile.

  • Rory was on the left side of the pole, and had not even a shaft to protect him.

  • Our road turned sharp to the left; but as we were close to the hedge on our own side, and there was plenty of room to pass, our driver did not pull us in.

  • She galloped round to the left wing, herself pulled the switch, looked so ferociously at Kennicott that he quaked, and fled back.

  • But when she discovered them, to the left of the track, her only impression of them was that they resembled the photographs.

  • But always to the left or right of him, according to whether he travels south or north, runs the rampart of the system, sometimes glittering with snow, sometimes formidable and rugged with splinters and spires of granite.

  • Checking at this, he turns sharp to the left and so off to the good trail again.

  • To the left as you rode you saw, far on the horizon, rising to the height of your eye, the mountains of the channel islands.

  • Strange to say, the left hand of his adversary incessantly won, whilst he snored to the sound of the dice!

  • But during our discussion my far larger stake, paid in the mean while, on the winning number, had disappeared into the pocket of my neighbour on the left, who was not so polite, and was very indignant at my suggestion that the stake was mine.

  • The old lady at the end of the table, to the left, is a well-known habituee at both places.

  • Now that we have taken a survey of the brilliant and moving throng, let us approach the stationary crowd to the left hand, and see what it is that so fascinates and rivets their attention.

  • The new government elected in September 1993 is politically to the left of its predecessor but is continuing the reform process.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the left" 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:
    the book; the executive; the expiration; the government; the next; the whole; the world; thee alone; thee from; thee have; then fold; then heated; then held; then stir; then strain the liquor; then that; then thou; then turn; then verily; then was; there had; there were; there would have been; these laws; these was; they shall