How to Use left in a Sentence

left

1 of 2 adjective

• He hit him with a left hook to the jaw.
• He felt a pain in his left side.
• Lyles has missed the past nine games with a left knee sprain.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 31 Mar. 2024
• De La Cruz slid head first and tapped the base with his left hand to score.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• During the struggle, the gun went off and the 34-year-old victim was shot in his left leg.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
• Nice, too, is a huge dead pedal for the driver's left foot.
  — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 6 July 2023
• At the same time, extend left arm and right leg to straight in the air so both are parallel to the floor.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 10 July 2023
• But Smith is out now, standing on the sideline with his left knee wrapped.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
• In the photos released this week, Lukashenko’s left hand is wrapped in a bandage.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Tran placed his left hand on the top of the window and reached his right arm inside the vehicle.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• The first victim, a 37-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm.
  — Jenna Smith, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2023
• While dribbling nostalgic about the old days, Niebla tore the ACL in his left knee.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
• Lift right hand to touch left shoulder, then return right hand to ground.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
• Chang has been out since April 25 after breaking a bone in his left hand.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Roughly four shots can be heard in the video, and the teen falls onto his left side, with the object on the ground nearby.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
• Step 2: Form a series of loose coils with the throw line from the slip knot on your wrist toward the net, then grip the coils with your left hand.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
• Toenails are for losers The rain picked up around mile 10, and so did the pain in my knees, my left heel, my hip flexors and more.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
• Come to the starting position and repeat with your left arm and right leg.
  — Jennifer Cohen, Health, 3 Dec. 2023
• And then when the Uber comes, the Uber is going to take Hae Sung and is going to drive him into the past, which is from right to left.
  — EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
• Take a step to the right, maintaining your posture, then bring your left foot to meet the right, then reverse.
  — Nicole Borgenicht, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• Sass mounted the client’s grandmother’s water skis (far left) to the wall as an art piece.
  — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 18 Apr. 2023
• Never let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.
  — Cynthea Corfah, Essence, 10 July 2023
• There are too many far left activists in the court for that expectation to hold true.
  — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
• Two of his toes on his left foot have been causing discomfort in his shoe.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
• Lunsford drew his handgun and allegedly shot Eze once on the back left side of his head at point-blank range.
  — CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Swanson, however, tore her left patella tendon in the game and is out for the World Cup.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 July 2023
• The candles are added from right to left, but lit from left to right on the menorah, thus always starting with the newest light.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Of course, any watch lover who saw the ensemble would have been blown away by the one-of-170 timepiece dangling from his left wrist.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
• My dad had bullet holes in his chest, his shoulder, his rib cage, his right elbow, and his left thigh.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• In the shot, a shirtless Moses stood outside with the blue sky behind him, while the actress appeared smiling in a smaller image in the top left corner.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024

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left

2 of 2 noun

• We read from left to right.
• You'll take two lefts and then a right.
• He hit him with two quick lefts to the stomach followed by a right to the jaw.
• For the record, the blue eye is on his right and the brown on his left.
  — R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
• Once that’s done, select the profile icon on the top left of the page.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Pats had to punt again, and the Jets had a chance for a Hail Mary with one second left.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Set the finger bowl to the top left of your dinner plate (near the bread plate).
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Rams got into the bonus in the second half with 12:27 left; the Aztecs never did.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Swiping from left to right on the home screen scrolls through pages of apps.
  — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
• Now, all that’s left of the sculpture is the base, the metal frame and a lot of plastic waste.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• And then there was the sunlight moving over the river to my left.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
• Do the two of you intend to keep making these big left turns in the future?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
• Hawkins picked up his third and fourth fouls within one minute and took a seat on the bench with 8:40 left in the game.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• There were only 33 made, so there’s only a few left in the world.
  — Hank Shteamer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Valles Marineris canyons are seen at the lower left, along with craters.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 June 2023
• The Bruins had an opening when Reese picked up her fourth foul with 8:16 left in the game and headed to the bench.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• Their best players go down, there’s little left to fill the void.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• Walker’s other five field goals in the quarter tied the score or gave the Lakers the lead, the last for good with 1:53 left.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The green button in the top left of your windows now has a new function in its drop-down menu.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 7 June 2023
• And the mustache is all that’s left of what was the largest statue of Josef Stalin in Germany.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Rea gave up a home run to Nick Castellanos to lead off the fourth on a drive into deep left that made it 3-1.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2023
• Seated in the chair to my left was a junior guard from Marquette named Glenn Rivers.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• Cruz, a Cuban boxer who had won the lightweight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, popped him with two more long lefts.
  — Morgan Campbell Todd Heisler, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• Shoe game Klein, a 23-year-old right-hander, wore a yellow right cleat and a blue one on his left.
  — Tim Booth and Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• There is the feeling of loneliness in light of the global left’s support of Hamas.
  — Ksenia Svetlova, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Built in the 1970s, West Wind is not only the last drive-in movie theater in the area — but one of the few left in California.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
• For the drivers, escape locations to get to the garage will be the driver’s left at Turn 2 and the driver’s left at Turn 12.
  — Kelly Crandall, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• In the family photo, Jonas stood in the center, flanked by Chopra Jonas on his right and his mom on his left.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
• Haywood Highsmith rebounded the miss but lost the ball to Maxey, who hit two free throws to seal it with one-tenth of a second left.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• As a result, students were pretty shaken up, with some left with bumps and bruises.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024