How to Use left in a Sentence

left

1 of 2 adjective

• He hit him with a left hook to the jaw.
• He felt a pain in his left side.
• Left field is a work in progress.
  — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• Learns to write with her left hand.
  — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
• What about trucks in the left lane?
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
• Place your right hand on your left knee.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
• The left side of the couch is his side.
  — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• He was hit by a line drive on his left foot.
  — Jaylon Thompson may 7, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
• The left hand will be at the top of the club.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• Loop the rope around the ball of your left foot.
  — Gerard Hartmann, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
• My date did not know his left foot from his right.
  — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 10 Feb. 2026
• My whole left side was like Swiss cheese.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
• Lyles has missed the past nine games with a left knee sprain.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 31 Mar. 2024
• Adames hacked and sent the pitch straight off his left knee cap.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
• Hood lines a double to left field.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
• What about driving in the left lane?
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
• What about driving in the left lane?
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
• Who gets the call at left tackle?
  — Joseph Person, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• Stewart flies out to left field.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• Allen corralls a long hit to left field.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
• Pull the left knee toward the chest.
  — Gerard Hartmann, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
• What’s the plan at left tackle?
  — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• Place your left hand behind your head.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
• This barrage didn't come out of left field.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• Place your left foot behind your right calf.
  — Gerard Hartmann, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
• Then move your left hand and right foot forward.
  — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 29 Jan. 2026
• Vestal drives home a run with a single to left field.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
• The left-hander struck out eight and walked one.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2026
• Atkinson was shot in the left foot, records said.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
• The left thumb should point downward along the grip and shaft.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026

left

2 of 2 noun

• We read from left to right.
• You'll take two lefts and then a right.
• He hit him with two quick lefts to the stomach followed by a right to the jaw.
• Kirk slumped to his left in his chair.
  — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
• Make the same left, then the same right.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
• And great as a left over the next day.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
• Look to the left of you, look to the right.
  — Bruce Headlam, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• And then, many on the left gave up the fight.
  — Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
• Hot dogs go to the left; ketchup to the right.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
• But the left can't get out of its way once again.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
• The bright glint to the left is Venus.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
• Maybe jump the fence over to his left and get out of dodge.
  — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• The left focused on who had to pay.
  — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• See the reddish area on the left?
  — Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• And this is coming from the left.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
• Cantwell to his left, and Clark to his right.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
• The mustached cop stood on her left.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• Right ear smaller than the left.
  — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
• There was plenty of anger on the left too.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
• But the left became afraid of strength.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
• Sami sped up and took the first left.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
• On the flip side, Democrats have moved to the left.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• That house on the left − empty.
  — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• About half a mile from the high school, the road curves to the left.
  — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
• And this is the part the left must reckon with.
  — Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
• Adebayo, then paused, and turned to his left.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
• Then there’s a 24-seat chef’s counter to your left.
  — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
• High and to the left, the net buckled and strained.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
• For the record, the blue eye is on his right and the brown on his left.
  — R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
• Prompted by the song, fans link arms and jump to the left.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 20 June 2026