leavings in a sentence
Examples
- Grappa is usually a brandy distilled from pomace, the rough leavings of the wine-making process.
- But our sacks they have ignored, perhaps knowing from past experience the substandard quality of our leavings.
- Sparrows peck through the dry seed husks on the ground, hoping to find a meal among the leavings.
- When Martians get depressed, they fall apart physically, trailing red body parts like leavings from a lobster dinner.
- "That was the leavings of what they had sold elsewhere, " Nicosia said in an interview last week.
- This was the best sort of mud, for it was natural, not the leavings of bulldozers or dirt bikes.
- He'd motion for all plates to come to him and then shovel everyone's leavings onto his own.
- And those independents lucky enough to have some spare cash may find some opportunities from the leavings of Exxon and Mobil.
- Carnivore leavings, for example, tend to be high in calcium phosphate, or apatite, a principal constituent of bone.
- While Mussina and Hampton search for paradise, all the second-tier starters like Denny Neagle must wait for the leavings.