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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lee-ving
Phonetic Transcription : ˈli vɪŋ



Definition of leavings

  • noun remains
Example sentences :
  • These leavings were conveyed to the market cellars and there sorted.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • Do, do me a favor and let me send you up a can of the leavings every night.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • I reckon the Master figure it to the last bite because they was no leavings over.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
  • For the next forty years, those who remained had been living on leavings.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • As for Spencer coming back to me, do you think I want her leavings?
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Black Roman is not satisfied with the leavings of such poor trash as you.
  • Extract from : « The Clue of the Twisted Candle » by Edgar Wallace
  • I cannot get rid of the leavings of a cold I got a month ago, or else it is a new one.
  • Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift
  • These all were fresh—the crumbs of one night's dinner, the leavings of one night's catch.
  • Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • A verse or two further on we are told what Ruth did with her leavings.
  • Extract from : « Talks To Farmers » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • That she would put up with the refuse of the rope, the leavings of the cord?
  • Extract from : « The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb » by Charles Lamb

Synonyms for leavings

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