"leaves" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use "leaves" as a noun or a verb, to indicate the plural form of the word "leaf" or to describe the action of someone leaving. For example: The tree's branches were blanketed in bright green leaves. I watched as the train left, leaving behind a line of smoke in the sky.
"EE's decision on Friday is surprising in the context of a contract that has more than a year to run and leaves the board with no alternative but to seek the administrator's protection in the interests of all its stakeholders".
It is a typically British fudge that leaves neither side satisfied.
"International human rights law leaves out men in nearly all instruments designed to address sexual violence," she continues.
And then you might just get the one terrifying delivery of the match that leaves you with 0 while everyone else has filled their boots.
And yet there's something gloomily philistine about it, something that leaves you with a surprising pang for the days when Tory patricians were allowed to be decent chaps without quite such demands on their electoral palatability.
How she set up the farm as a home for a group of young people from all over the world to work their summers tending the soil, gathering eggs, feeding the pigs and sorting salad leaves.
Greens grown on soil in good heart, salad leaves produced without the aid of chemical sprays, animals that have lived a good life and eaten good food.
A person leaves a comment beneath an article which he then wishes he hadn't made.
That leaves Williams to mind the fort until a Flood replacement – possibly his old Scarlets club-mate Rhys Priestland, or Freddie Burns of Gloucester – arrives; certainly for the couple of months when Flood is away with England's Six Nations squad.
Opening the bags of infant leaves of rocket and oak-leaf lettuce, basil and nasturtium, hot mustard and cool butterhead is a daily ritual that is as much a part of my life as a morning espresso.
@bartsfishtales SM Constance Braud's company, which has been operating on a small scale since 2008, mostly sources leaves from China producing some fantastic smoked teas, greens, whites and oolongs.
