How To Use In the lurch In A Sentence
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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
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he resigned and left me in the lurch
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I'm sorry to leave you in the lurch but I can't do the presentation with you this afternoon.
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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.
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It would be quite cruel of you to simply leave your dearest friends in the lurch in that manner!
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But after the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan, we were left in the lurch.
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Santa's reindeer left him in the lurch when they abandoned him on a church roof, leaving firemen to come to the rescue.
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Fast, seem Godly, Pray, and go to Church - the Rhyme will be left in the lurch else.
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You wouldn't leave an old friend in the lurch, surely?
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Mr Littlehales added: ‘They are offering peanuts and leaving us in the lurch.’
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Yet in such circumstances the woman who has been left in the lurch is supposed to suffer, quite apart from the damage to her affection, a sort of moral damage and disgrace from the heartlessness or fickleness of another person – the man to whom she has been engaged; and this moral damage is, I believe, taken into account in actions for breach of promise of marriage (where there is no question of seduction).
Marriage as a Trade
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Kelu departed forthwith, despite the guru's curse for leaving him in the lurch.
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Tom quit his job, leaving his boss in the lurch.
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Had the national forces failed at the critical period of financial organization, and the States, bankrupt by the revolutionary struggle, been left in the lurch, the republic would have followed the usual course of disintegration displayed by federations from the time of the Greek amphictyonies down to that of the Holy Roman Empire.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism
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Mr. Vincent will be left in the lurch; he will not even have the lady's fair hand -- her _fair_ heart is
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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But he fails to account for why the Austrian government labelled them as criminals and left them in the lurch.
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'We really would like to know where he is, but we simply don't have a clue, ' said a South Korean military attache, who added he felt he was left in the lurch by his own intelligence services.
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Elderly people in Little Hulton were left in the lurch when the local launderette closed - meaning a one and a half mile trek to the nearest facilities.
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May 29th, 2009 LONDON - A British tourist was left in the lurch after a large wild parrot known as the kea stole his passport in New Zealand.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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If the military really can't fight wars without contractors, it must at least come up with ironclad policies on what to do if the private soldiers break local laws or leave American forces in the lurch.
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The advent of plastic saw this natural and eco-friendly product being forced out of homes, leaving the craftsmen in the lurch.
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We have received a very apologetic letter about the closure of the West End Club, but it really left us in the lurch.
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As reported last week, it dropped plans to sell-off its vehicle depots as part of the deal following fears that it would leave winter road maintenance in the lurch.
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Shall I leave my brother in the lurch?" the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it.
In The Time Of Light
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The defendant was said to have turned to fraud when Mr Moore left her in the lurch and she was struggling to pay the mortgage on her pension, the court was told.
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Anyway, the cow has left me in the lurch and now I have to do her work (which was originally mine which I foisted on her) as well as my own.
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Booms are almost by definition a huge transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another leaving many in the lurch.
