Example sentences for: lefty

How can you use “lefty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lake has two problems: 1) his (inadvertent, he says) failure to sell some energy stocks in 1993, when he became national security adviser; and 2) Republican alarm that he might be a dangerous lefty, based on his 1970 resignation from the National Security Council over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and on his more recent refusal to confirm that Alger Hiss was a staff Soviet spy.

  • Lefty seems drawn to "Donnie" because he bears a physical resemblance to the gangster's own son, a junkie who keeps his distance.

  • Also on the theme of lefty hypocrisy, a piece derides the "steep decline of liberal moralism."

  • And partly it comes from Pacino, whose epic self-absorption, in this context, makes Lefty seem heartbreakingly vulnerable, even while he's blowing people's heads off.

  • In a certain segment of lefty society, Thompson has become a much revered elder.


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