Left-behind

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Alternative form of Left Behind..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative form of Left Behind.
2. An item that was left behind when someone departed.

Example Sentences

At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.

The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners.

He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.

Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.

Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.

Breakfast when they return is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned against because it can turn a service dog into a food hound who noses along restaurant tabletops in search of left-behinds.

First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.

One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.

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