Sentence examples for were left to pick from inspiring English sources

Others were left to pick up the pieces.

In the dark days and weeks after the suicide of the artist Jeremy Blake in July, his friends and colleagues were left to pick up the pieces, literally.

Admission was free for most visitors, there was no sponsorship, and Israelian and his co-producers were left to pick up a hefty bill.

It is now evident that the bankers were being rewarded largely for taking on unacknowledged risks: after the subprime market collapsed, bank shareholders and taxpayers were left to pick up the losses.

Without an overarching plan, Victoria risked repeating the piecemeal approach that followed the Black Saturday bushfires, where residents were left to pick their way through building regulations without producing a fundamentally safer community, he said.

Afghans were left to pick up the pieces.

And, if it fails, the world will be left to pick up the pieces.

If things go wrong, the taxpayer will be left to pick up some of the tab.

"And then they leave and we're left to pick up the debris".

Basically, I was left to pick up the pieces, which was incredibly frustrating.

Carers have been left to pick up the pieces of our broken social care system.