leave out
to cause to remain in the open: you can leave your car out tonight
to omit or exclude
Words Nearby leave out
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How to use leave out in a sentence
Careful not to leave out the ladies, GQ awarded Emma Watson with this year's Best Woman award.
Tom Ford Named GQ’s Designer of the Year; Balenciaga Sets Court Date | The Fashion Beast Team | September 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMy favorite was No. 10: “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.”
Elmore Leonard Was the Cool King of Crime Fiction | Malcolm Jones | August 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTElsa Maxwell was famous for being famous, a gossip columnist and party planner who knew whom to invite and whom to leave out.
But to leave out Parks and Recreation, which had one of its best and most nuanced seasons to date, is particularly myopic.
2012 Emmy Nomination Snubs & Surprises: ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘The Good Wife’ | Jace Lacob | July 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt would be a shame to leave out some of the delightful asides and digressions that fill the book.
I suspect that you leave out in your own definition the element of Action, which seems to me inseparable from it.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingIn listening to accounts of Chopin's style of playing, we must not leave out of consideration the time to which they refer.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksPare your pineapple; cut it in small pieces, and leave out the core.
A Poetical Cook-Book | Maria J. MossHere is another that I cannot leave out: Haydn dedicated one of his most important instrumental compositions to his mother.
For we purposely leave out of sight innumerable facts in regard to its influence on nutrition, temperature, etc.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender Brackett
Other Idioms and Phrases with leave out
Omit, fail to include, as in This sentence doesn't make sense; a key word has been left out. [Late 1400s]
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