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a. Remaining unused, of a portion of something. alt. Remaining unused, of a portion of something.
Usage examples of "left-over".
Even Jarratt was much annoyed and asked that his name be stricken from the records, on the grounds that he had merely wanted to buy any left-overs from the Argyle Museum and not the rare items that formed the basis of the story.
When it was over, the man held out his cap first to the big American with the bloody face, and Scott emptied his left pocket into the cap: dirham and half-dirham pieces and left-over francs and one rogue dime.
Sarai had long since decided that those tales were just left-over lies, wartime propaganda, but now she wondered whether there might be some truth to the legends, and whether Tabaea might have made some ghastly bargain with creatures no sane demonologist would dare approach.
It was an act of defiance, and at the evening meal that night, as her parents consumed a trifle composed of left-over blancmange and jelly-roll, she was powerfully conscious of their eyes upon her.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA In memory of Brett Goodman Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity… HORACE MANN I THE astonishing sequence of events which affected the entire civilized galaxy, including not only the many leagues, alliances, temporary interworld liaisons, and independent worlds but also directly the lives of billions of individual human beings, began with a left-over cheese sandwich.
Over by the Berghaus, the Schneefinken, and Schneevogel, the snow-finches and Alpine choughs, that lived on the crumbs and left-overs of the picnickers, were fluttering and swooping close round the building - a sure storm-warning.
And I swear to each and every one of you, if they blow me apart and send the left-over pieces bouncing down to hell, you may rest assured that I will drag as many as I can take down with me.
Odo watched the last Jem Hadar disappear downthe curved corridor through the mist of smoke left-over from the ruptured vent main.
She staunched it with a wad of left-over hamburger roll and placed it primly between her lips.
He worked now most nights and some lunchtimes at the Bacton Arms, helping to clear up the left-overs, although from Beth's expression I guessed that that mostly involved him drinking them.
Biff was glad that they were fed left-over fish instead of monkey meat.
Since Ran Borune was the first of his family to occupy the imperial throne, his palace still crawled with left-over Vorduvians whose characters covered the spectrum from the near side of rascalism to the far boundaries of outright criminality.