Example sentences for: lest

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

  • Lest the national language be eventually supplanted by le sabir atlantique (the Atlantic pidgin), he urged the government to set up a system of penalties to divert the linguistic polluters from the path of sin.

  • The pharmaceutical company that plans to market the drug won't name its manufacturers, lest pro-lifers hound them out of business.

  • Finally, lest their opponents' weakness not suffice to produce a landslide, both incumbents got further help from a third-party candidate: Nixon from George Wallace, who drained white Southern support from the Democrats, and Clinton from Ross Perot, who likely will drain white suburbanites from Dole.

  • Lest anyone miss the point, one of the apostles appears onstage to explain it to the audience after the crucifixion.

  • He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.


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