leaving

Example Sentences

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If a parked vehicle is preventing you from leaving your driveway or forcing pedestrians to enter the road, you can report it to police.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

Quiet areas that are always taken, leaving people to wander whenever they need to take a call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

American alt-pop singer and internet personality Oliver Tree was aboard one of two helicopters that collided Sunday mid-air in Brazil, leaving all six people aboard the aircraft dead, a police source told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

“It’s tough to say. I would say they’re not, but I don’t think they’re egregiously leaving athletes open to even more severe injuries, necessarily. My bias is just that everything can be safer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

It blew in great, roaring gusts, then abruptly died, leaving an empty space that echoed with the most disturbing sound: a far-off moaning, as if the woods were trying to tell Clare something.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman