Meaning of left-behind | Babel Free

Definitions

An item that was left behind when someone departed.

Examples

“At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw⟳ the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.”

“The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge⟳ the winners.”

“He would refer⟳ to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.”

“Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.”

“Eribon could also have⟳ been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.”

“Breakfast when they return⟳ is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail⟳, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned against because it can turn⟳ a service dog into a food hound who noses along restaurant tabletops in search⟳ of left-behinds.”

“First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.”

“One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.”

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