Example sentences for: lest

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

  • And lest we forget what this is all about, the WP reports that a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that non-smokers not only live longer, but have less sickness and dependence on others in their last years.

  • 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.

  • I am on the verge of suggesting another restaurant, lest I "collide" with the other man.

  • The spins: 1) Telecommunication companies must merge lest they be destroyed by others who have already merged.

  • Lest you think that Dubya has cornered the market on this form of cribbing, the piece reports that in 1996, the ranks of Clinton-Gore donors included an 11-year-old.


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