Sentence examples similar to lest I need from inspiring English sources

I'd begun avoiding people, avoiding travelling too far from my bed lest I needed suddenly to be safely back in it, sleeping so much as to only get more tired.

Now, though I need to turn east lest I end up back in Chicago, the rain is persisting and the wind has grown only stronger.

And, lest I forget, I need to forgive all of those people that I allowed to creep into my little brooding mind.

And, lest the memory fade, I need only touch the guitar pick he -- grinning broadly -- tossed into the audience.

I need a pink hammer for home improvement projects, lest I suddenly become confused that I'm actually a dude working around the house.

I need to buy a gun, in other words, lest my goyische neighbors put me and my family in an oven.

It says something that I actually feel I need to quickly follow the above paragraph with a lengthy disclaimer lest I immediately lose all tech credibility.

They tell me I need to reach out to you and confess to being naughty lest I face some real "consequences".

At one point I felt as though I needed to see a strip mall ASAP, lest I start to believe in a latter-day higher power.

I was told that my neutral face looked too sad, and I needed smile more, lest I ruin the ambiance.

I looked at my mother-turned-child, and like the stern authority I needed to be -- lest she get drunk, slur her words and become an embarrassment to her grandchildren -- I told her: "NO!