Sentence examples for left familiar from inspiring English sources

They were terrific letters, I thought, and the more of them I read, the more I appreciated how his military career echoed that of the millions of Americans who during those years had left familiar jobs for an unknown and likely perilous one.

The speed and clarity of his bebop playing in the early 50s quickly made him one of the hottest new jazz kids on the block, but he soon left familiar jazz avenues behind, and passed though many stylistic changes over his long career.

She also is for leaving familiar things consistently in the same place, repeating people's names frequently after meeting them and doing mind exercises, like crossword puzzles.

So no doubt Sander's owners, Onward Holdings, will have been pleased to hear Simons was inspired by "the reward of leaving familiar ground and responding to new impulses".

Henry Threadgill, the Chicagoan saxophonist and composer, is by no means a jazz celeb, but he's a hero to many influential insiders for his adventurousness with structure and instrumentation, and for explorations of timbre that transform the jazz sound, while still leaving familiar clues from its roots.

Traveling to a new place and leaving familiar surroundings involve psychic costs, which are different from monetary costs and difficult to measure.

The Times praised the libretto: "It should... be acknowledged that Mr. Gilbert has earnestly endeavoured to leave familiar grooves and rise to higher things".

Leave familiar scents by your door.

"Is there any popcorn left?" a familiar voice whispered in my ear.

Especially on the Labour and Liberal left, the familiar labels are dismissed as old hat.

That left two familiar names, both with pieces first seen some years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.