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Example sentences for: lest

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This curious aspect is further explained in these terms: “lest Speaker lose face by offending Hearer's sensibilities” [p.
And in order to have growing scalp hair--as humans uniquely do--you need to have hands to cut it, lest it get so long that it jeopardizes your survival.
A feature marvels at military food, which now includes a barbecue chicken sandwich that lasts three years without spoiling and airdrop rations that "flutter, rather than plummet, down to earth, lest they take anyone out in the process."
What everybody thinks, and nobody can print, is that the president got his Asian associates to pony up, lest a pinched pal feel the urge to sing to Starr.
Hay poles as a term would never win a popularity contest with computer terminology, but lest we forget, they were poles used in pairs by two men, one out from with a pole in each hand, the other, holding the opposite ends, bringing up the rear, and carrying bales of hay cut by scythe from the hummocks of a bog.