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US
/ˈɫi/
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[ UK /lˈiː/ ]
[ UK /lˈiː/ ]
NOUN
- a unit of length of thread or yarn
- a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
How To Use lea In A Sentence
- He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
- Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
- It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007