leave alone
Example Sentences
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With that feedback, executives then determined which menu items to take prices up on and which to leave alone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
For 74-year-old Olena Motuzko, getting the food is an ordeal because she has a disabled husband she must leave alone for hours at a time.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Their first order of business was to review every dish to see which they could jettison, which they could leave alone and which they could improve.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021
On March 18, agents conducting surveillance saw Flores leave alone in a medium-size truck that had a separate cargo area accessible only from the back.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2020
The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
