leave in the lurch
Example Sentences
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“The majority’s rule will leave in the lurch the many states, private parties and legal researchers who relied on the previously bright-line rule” between statutes and annotations, he wrote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
It’s not just prisoners whom private prison contractors leave in the lurch, though.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
The only delicate question related to the American loyalists in the army, whom Cornwallis felt it was wrong to leave in the lurch.
From The Minute Boys of York Town by James Otis
To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Poor Miss Planta, meanwhile, I was forced to leave in the lurch; for I could not propose the bed-room passage to my present company, and she was undressed and unpacking.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
