Lest in a sample sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lest in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lest.
- Nedda dreaded every day lest he should begin. (8)
- And yet it must be tackled, lest worse befell. (8)
- I plunged across the street lest he should ask me. (9)
- She dreaded lest the chambermaid had been mistaken. (4)
- For herself, she feared to move, lest she should be seen. (4)
- See to it lest the light that is in you be not darkness! (12)
- She dreaded lest she should learn to be insensible of it. (4)
- Give me wings of great desire, Lest I look within, and fail! (10)
- Yet she was fearful lest the promise to Segwuna could not be kept. (18)
- I had been rather in alarm lest Ottilia should think little of Janet. (10)
- She dreaded only lest the feeling of utter weariness should leave her. (8)
- O now the down-slope of the lunatic Illumine lest we redden of that brood. (10)
- He held her lightly, without speaking, terrified lest he should wound her pride. (8)
- But in sheer panic lest he might be caught thus spying he drew back and hurried on. (8)
- And trying to smile too, but turning lest he should lose his self-control, he went away. (8)
- She had one terror, lest her heart should sigh, And tell her loudly she no longer dreamed. (10)
- Poor Braintop, on his part, sat in mortal fear lest his admiration of Emilia was perceived. (10)
- She looked at her father to entreat his interference, lest Mary should be singing all night. (4)
- Algernon affected the nod of haste and acquiescence, and ran, lest they should hear him groan. (10)
- Algernon affected the nod of haste and acquiescence, and ran, lest they should hear him groan. (22)
- Doctor in dejection lest his gallantry should no longer continue to wrestle with his good sense. (10)
- His sensation of sinking was so vivid that he feared lest he should be going still further below. (10)
- She kept away from that lest the birds should come fluttering about her, and betray her by cooing. (8)
- Terrified lest he should relapse into that grim silence, she timidly possessed herself of his hand. (8)
- The Rector quartered his congregation with his gaze, lest any amongst them should incline to sleep. (8)
- Vittoria was in alarm lest Wilfrid should accost her while she drove from gate to gate of the city. (10)
- The care we took of them lest they should get burned or torn, and prove worthless in the hour of need! (20)
- Violetta listened to it until her heart quickened with alarm lest she should be going to have a fever. (10)
- Let not a thought or a dream spring from her condescension, lest you do outrage to her noble simplicity. (10)
- She rose at last, and repaired the ravages made in her face and dress, lest anyone should see that she was suffering. (8)
- Ninety very soon find out that they are not, and, having found it out, lest others should discover, they say they are. (8)
- Now must the brother soul alive in each His traitorous individual devildom Hold subject lest the grand destruction come. (10)
- In fear lest he should punish them in his great anger, the treacherous redskins slunk away with their scalps and plunder. (19)
- Now must the brother soul alive in each, His traitorous individual devildom Hold subject lest the grand destruction come. (10)
- There was not one chair vacant in the whole of the little drawing-room, and anxiety was felt lest someone else should arrive. (8)
- Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again. (4)
- I was obliged to offer up my father as a shield for Ottilia, lest false ideas should tarnish the image of her in their minds. (10)
- He was literally afraid not to put his design into execution at the first possible moment, lest, after all, he might fail himself. (8)
- At last he heard footsteps, and waited, hidden behind the door of the empty dining-room, lest at sight of him she should turn back. (8)
- Drink of faith in the brains a full draught Before the oration: beware Lest rhetoric moonily waft Whither horrid activities snare. (10)
- He could have seen the inviting consciousness, but he was absurdly watchful lest the flying sprays of border trees should strike her. (10)
- She trembled before his eye, and the very pores of her body seemed to cling from below to the coverlet lest he turn it suddenly back. (12)
- Yet for a period they went to and fro softly, with that peculiar hush of fear scarcely relieved, lest their hopes might be too strong. (13)
- They showed no fear of him, but seemed to be pushing him unconsciously away, lest he should restrain or alter what was very dear to them. (8)
- Fearing lest she should proceed further and cut away from him his vantage-ground of secrecy with her, he turned the subject and was adroitly submissive. (10)
- His excellent aunts had ventured a comment on his appearance that frightened him lest he himself should be the person to betray his astounding discomfiture. (10)
- Nataly shunned his name, with a superstitious dread lest any mention of him should renew pretensions that she hoped, and now supposed, were quite withdrawn. (10)
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Definition of lest:
- lest, lest, conj. that not: for fear that. (0) | lest, lest, v.i. (_spens._) to listen.(0)
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