Example sentences for: leftover

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

  • In this case, the cost of oversupply comes to $80 = $200 – $120 because the retailer loses that much on every leftover dress.

  • Dizzy Pheasant Leftover and Plug for a Fine Magazine:

  • Two years later, the men who went home are informed of what happened after they boarded the plane: Police discovered their leftover hashish (purchased for a ridiculously low sum in American dollars and tossed into the garbage as they were leaving) and imprisoned the remaining Yank.

  • In the days just before 9/11, the hijackers returned leftover funds to al Qaeda and assembled in their departure cities.

  • Perhaps what is astonishing is the increasing distance, chiefly during the past century, that landlubbers have put between the sea and themselves: knowledge and awareness of such matters now rests largely among naval types, those yachtsmen who enjoy the leftover jargon of the sea, and a handful of eccentrics, like Jeans, a few others I could mention, and me.


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