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vb. (present participle of leave behind English)
Usage examples of "leaving behind".
They simply vanished, leaving behind everything material: clothes, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hairpieces, hearing aids, fillings, jewelry, shoes, even pacemakers and surgical pins.
No sooner had this happened than an agitation at the shoulders made it plain that the white waistcoat and the long black tailcoat were trying to dislodge themselves from the hanger and then, all at once they were free, and the hanger, leaving behind it in the room a headless, handless, footless spectre, floated into the depths of the cupboard and the door closed upon it.
Perhaps as they moved away from central Mongolia, Kolya mused, they were leaving behind the center of gravity of this vast continent’.
Nirgal bent down to touch a wave as it stalled out next to their feet, leaving behind a white lace of foam, “.
From this place the sky could be clearly seen, and clouds, dissipated by the west wind, leaving behind them, even on the summit of the mountain, their misty remnants—.
It hurled itself against the fleshy mass, passing through from one part to the other, leaving behind it two quivering halves of the animal.
Rodney Flannagen died bitter, his world littered with bogus astrological predictions, fake bullets, and flattened pennies, and leaving behind a business whose estimated worth ranged between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars.
The visitor, a well-bundled woman, stomped the snow from her boots, as she slowly made her way to the elevator, leaving behind her a trail of small, dirty puddles.
The American planes charge in unopposed and veer away, leaving behind nothing but more skipping bombs.
The kind of kid who would freeze in the glare of the homeowner's flashlight, then frantically grab his pants and leap over the fence, leaving behind a half-empty bottle of tequila, a Metallica T-shirt, and, probably, his wallet.
Then it was gone, leaving behind it a small vivid picture of an ill-paved lane, a wall, and a door deep set therein.
The one man who might have had such knowledge (though he concealed it if he did) they were leaving behind them as part of the earth of this world.
The morning we packed our equipment into the truck and headed back for Kampala, I felt like a deserter from some stupid, pointless war: guilty about the colleagues I was leaving behind, but almost euphoric with relief to be out of it myself.