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in the lurch

ADVERB
  1. in a difficult or vulnerable position
    he resigned and left me in the lurch

How To Use in the lurch In A Sentence

  • My Eyes have been leaving me in the lurch again: partly perhaps from taxing them with a little more Reading: partly from going on the Water, and straining after our River Beacons, in hot Sun and East Wind; partly also, and _main partly_ I doubt, from growing so much older and the worse for wear. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
  • he resigned and left me in the lurch
  • I'm sorry to leave you in the lurch but I can't do the presentation with you this afternoon.
  • Some of the ‘cool’ people will leave you in the lurch or betray your friends; at least one of the people you can't stand will prove to be a loyal, courageous, and inspiring friend.
  • It would be quite cruel of you to simply leave your dearest friends in the lurch in that manner!
  • But after the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan, we were left in the lurch.
  • Santa's reindeer left him in the lurch when they abandoned him on a church roof, leaving firemen to come to the rescue.
  • Fast, seem Godly, Pray, and go to Church - the Rhyme will be left in the lurch else.
  • You wouldn't leave an old friend in the lurch, surely?
  • Mr Littlehales added: ‘They are offering peanuts and leaving us in the lurch.’
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