How to Use the Left in a Sentence

the Left

noun

• Martinez runs off the left side of the line for a gain of 2.
  — Nick Daschel | [e-mail], oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• Now, the Packers should be set on the left side for the next couple of years.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Thread the handle into the mounting hole on the left or right side of the grinder.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
• Step your left foot back, dropping the left knee to just-barely touch the ground.
  — Women's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
• The nervous system is cross-wired, so that the left side of the brain controls the right half of the body and vice versa.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Click You and Google on the left, then Import bookmarks and settings.
  — WIRED, 30 July 2023
• Only the left lane was open due to flooding in Wayne County.
  — Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
• Switch sides and do the same motion on the opposite side with the right elbow touching the left knee.
  — Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
• Near the Left Field stage, baseball fans could test their swing at the batting cages or their throw at the pitching cages.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
• From the Settings app, choose System on the left, then scroll down to click on Recovery.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
• Jung, who was hit on the left hand by a 95 mph on Wednesday, wore a padded protection shield on the hand and was able to hit the ball to all fields.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The victim stated that Winfrey lunged at her, striking the left side of her neck and yanking the phone away.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2023
• The public address announcer then instructs the crowd to look above the left-field wall.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• After Alex Bregman hit a ball off the left field wall, Haase caught the ball on the bounce and fired it to Kreidler at second base.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
• But you’ve been criticized a fair amount from the left as well, especially as the Biden years have worn on.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Ohtani, up with the bases full, won their second matchup, driving a 99 mph fastball off the left-field wall for an RBI single.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
• His ground ball traveled down the third-base line and into the left field corner, scoring both runners to tie it.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023
• In the 40th minute, Swanson, 24, took a pass on the left wing, turned upfield and was challenged by the Irish defender Aoife Mannion.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• From the left side of the top of the 18-yard box, Vazquez received the ball and pushed it towards his right foot which in turn sent a curling, powerful ball past the keeper.
  — Landon Bartlett, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
• Look for Network in the left pane and select Wi-Fi listed underneath.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• On the Comets’ second play of the night, Boyd took a pitch from quarterback Gunnar Gemmell and raced 75 yards down the left sideline for a touchdown.
  — Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
• In one of the pairs, the left panel shows swirling cursive writing layered over a photo of a young girl holding onto a baby in a bassinet.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Stephenson’s double in the left-center gap tied the score at 2, but the Reds didn't produce another hit until the ninth inning.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
• This feature will be familiar to anyone who has played any 1980s-era video game in which a combatant exiting the right side of the screen reenters on the left.
  — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
• Ohtani casually slapped the ball the opposite way and nearly cleared the left-field wall, settling for a long run-scoring single.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Garret Feltman led off the inning with a solo home run, blasting an 0-1 pitch off Jared Merida and driving it over the left center field wall.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• For the left, the silence has been anything but therapeutic, even enraging.
  — Constant Méheut Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• The climate controls, located to the left of the steering wheel (in classic Jeep fashion), also received the 3-D-printing treatment.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 18 July 2023
• Lurking in the left lane, stealing a parking spot, not letting someone merge, not using a turn signal... all of these would be considered rude driving.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• For the left, the riders symbolize the need for strong labor rights to prevent work from becoming ever more precarious.
  — Ben Wray, WIRED, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024