Wondering how to use Left in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as liberal or remaining.
Left in a sentence
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Left meaning
- Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
- Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
- Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
Synonyms of Left
Using Left
- The main meaning on this page is: Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ← | Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation. | Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
- Useful related words include: right, left-hand, left-handed, liberal.
- In the example corpus, left often appears in combinations such as: the left, left and, left the.
Example sentences (20)
In the first, the 8th beats are played with a space-left-right-left-space-left-right-left pattern, where the spaces represent downbeats not played—that and the left-right-left falls on the ee-and-a, or and-2-and if counted at double time.
Left ideology never ceases to amaze me, Left's main dissent with the right is that right is violent they love to fight for Dharma and left essentially believes in love and peace so the woke left tried to kill Trump so hate and violence cant win.
Jan Zobec far left; Vorperian 3rd from left; Philip Leach 4th from left; 5th from left Dr. Jernej Cernic; 2nd from right Milder Vorperian, others are Slovenian attorneys.
About 5 seconds after all the landing gear were in ground contact the left main landing gear collapsed and the aircraft left wing tip, left propeller and the rear left portion of the fuselage contacted the runway.
The left leg of the athlete is straddling the left thigh of the opponent—the left knee of the opponent is not on the floor—and is trapping the left foot of the opponent by stepping on it.
His body bore three bullet wounds to his neck, one to his right jaw, one to his left jaw, one to his left-side forehead, one to his right-side forehead, one to his left hand, two to his right-side lower back, and two to his right shoulder.
She is also accused of causing damage to the left front fender, left indicator and left front door of the complainant's vehicle.
There’s also a tension on the Left between its wealthy center-left donors and its fringy hard-left foot soldiers.
The stroke left him unable to perform basic tasks – giving him brain damage that affected his memory and left the left side of his body paralysed.
Gemma can also be recognised by a tattoo of a cross on her neck amd left wrist, a flower tattoo on her left arm and left leg and she has a pierced nose as well as ear piercings.
He said: “I’ve played left-sided centre-back, left back and left wing back.
He reminded the congregation that pedestrians should use the left side of the road facing oncoming traffic; use designated areas when crossing; look left, right and left before crossing and ensure that motorists have given the right of way.
Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Tampa Bay left-hander José Alvarado (left shoulder inflammation), first baseman Ji-Man Choi (left hamstring strain) and infielder Yandy Díaz (right hamstring strain) are set to participate in a simulated game.
That means that my left-back defends as a left-back and then when we go in attacking organisation, my left-back becomes one of the three in the back.
The hosts came out and worked the ball around the perimeter, Michael Carter III finally getting it on the left side and dropping in a left-handed jumper with two seconds left for the decisive points.
With a runner on second and a left-handed pull hitter at the plate, Winkin moved Colton from left field to right field with Dick Whitten going from right to left.
Poon (third left), with Vivian (fourth right), Tang (front, second left), Jimmy (front, left), and Calvin (third right) launching the Datuk Stephen Wong Memorial Football Tournament yesterday.
Solomon Teklu, owner of Java Tree, left, talks with his customers including Mekonnen Gebremedhin, second from left, and Tariku Haile, third from left, at Java Tree at Flamingo Road and Decatur Boulevard in Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019.
You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you’re shopping all about.
Common combinations with left
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the left 62×
- left and 25×
- left the 24×
- and left 17×
- from left 16×
- his left 14×
- left in 13×
- left to 11×
- left on 11×
- was left 11×