Sentence examples for left but a from inspiring English sources

She has no immediate relatives left but a distant brother.

"There was nothing left but a pure picture," he says.

There is little left but a sliver of the south-side stands.

When the wind died down, and the water receded, there was nothing left but a sandpit.

The pill in my pocket disintegrated — nothing was left but a nugget of foil and plastic.

She did, and hit it, and there was nothing left but a stub of branch.

Hare missed a runner with five seconds left, but a jump ball gave possession to Belmont.

Nothing was left but a couple of pilings sticking up from a concrete slab.

More would have left, but a perfect storm of circumstances whipped fans into a demented reaction.

Goldenlocks had nothing left but a white cloth, which he used to conceal his hair.

It was unclear how many left, but a spokesman for Mayor Thomas M. Leighton called Wilkes-Barre a "ghost town".