Example sentences for: leftovers

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

  • The night before the crash, his roommate said he'd ordered a large pizza so he'd have leftovers for the next night.

  • The other elements are miscellaneous: plumbing fixtures, kitchen appliances, yard-sale leftovers, all ingeniously recycled to become skyscrapers, factories, freeways.

  • Knowle­dgeable visitors look for antiques — either Chinese heirlooms or leftovers from the gracious Portuguese colonial days.

  • The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.

  • In a cave in the Ardeche near Valence, Alban Defleur of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseilles and Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley discovered 100,000-year-old human bones mixed up with those of animals, all of them looking like the leftovers from dinner.


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