Sentence examples for but left us from inspiring English sources

There's China the pit bull, birthing her puppies in primal, bloody glory in the opening scenes; Esch, the 15-year-old narrator, whose own mother is dead, and whose own pregnancy is unwanted and mostly unacknowledged; and there is Hurricane Katrina, "the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies".

Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker A giant among songwriters passed, but left us one of his hardest-hitting albums.

"We kept finding artists that either did Hanukkah recordings and Christmas recordings, or Jewish artists that never did Hanukkah recordings at all, but left us Christmas recordings, like Barbra Streisand," said David Katznelson, a San Francisco record producer who is one of the society's members.

It has long been an option open to fans of the author, who wrote so wonderfully but left us tantalisingly little, to buy a flight to New York, get on a bus to Princeton, New Jersey, and sit in a comfortable reading room in the university's library (under discreet supervision), reading The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, which is regarded as a key peripheral text to Catcher in the Rye.

The chips had an indistinguishable "fishy" flavor but left us wanting more of a punch.

As 2014 draws to a close, I wanted to celebrate four great rainbows for justice who passed away this year but left us a much better people and nation.

The movie is intelligent but leaves us half-satisfied, too.

Generally she acknowledges the "heavy, cumbersome, potentially toxic baggage" Buck carried with her but leaves us to unpack it.

To horribly misquote another epic Italian American movie: take the credit, Stanley, but leave us the timpano.

Reducing the levels of the protein, known as p53, might help us ward off the symptoms of aging -- but leave us highly vulnerable to cancer.

"[The warning] generates a thumping downgrade in full-year 2016 but leaves us with profits that are less contentious and arguably higher quality in that they generate cash.