Example sentences for: lest

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

  • Importantly, the task force, after intense debate, rejected categorical prohibitions lest they unintentionally impede the translation of research discoveries into tangible public benefits.

  • Lest the reader think of Dryden as a stuffy purist, here he is on neologisms:

  • But you have to have the right people, lest the spectacle prove disagreeable.

  • Lest anyone miss this point, when the bald boss shuts his door, our guy (off-screen) sings: "One more time!"

  • Congress cannot recast a condition on funding as a mere definition of its program in every case, lest the First Amendment be reduced to a simple semantic exercise.


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