Word: lest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state judge Friday rejected prosecutors' request for a short jail term, and instead insisted the kinky sportscaster stay out of trouble for a full year ? lest he be hauled back to Virginia for further punishment...
...prepared to join the current White House occupants in their fund-raising efforts should Al Gore make his expected run for the nation's highest office. "He's really a neat guy," a smiling Thompson said of the Veep. "Sanka, anyone?" Watch A Clockwork Orange (1971). Twice. Lest it happen...
...dispensing creamy delights. Why the delay, Dartboard asks? If the machine is here, let's crank it up ASAP. But the FroYo gods evidently did not consult with Hephaestus and his team of electricity gods before smiling on Lowellians. Circuitry in the dining hall requires some reworking lest Harvardians blow a fuse or two while mixing strawberry and cappuccino...
...strange disjunction between the private and public Gores stymies his friends, frustrates his advisers and puzzles the press. To one degree or another, all politicians suffer from it, of course. For most of their waking hours they have learned to smother their natural impulses, lest the videotape capture some untoward wisecrack or a flirtatious glance. They know the landscape of American politics is littered with the carcasses of colleagues who tried, with disastrous results, to be a normal human being...
...about time," said one Class of 2001 mother who requested anonymity lest her son die of embarrassment before classes even start...