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How to use leaflet in a sentence

31 example sentences · noun, verb

Leaflet means one of the components of a compound leaf. Example: “The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.”

Examples of leaflet by meaning

nounA small plant leaf.

  • The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.

nounA small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.

  • A leaflet had been left under the car's windshield wiper.

nounA flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.

  • the flutter of the anterior mitral leaflet is best delineated1985, Hugo Spindola-Franco, Robert Eisenberg, Bernard G. Fish, Charles B. Higgins, Richard M. Steingart, John P. Wexler, Radiology of the...

verbTo distribute leaflets to.

  • A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.
  • At approximately 9:30 p.m. the demonstrators regrouped in front of the Copley Plaza and leafleted the area until an entourage of limousines entered the hotel.1980 August 16, Warren Blumenfeld, “Disabled Group Pickets Sack Titanic Premiere”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 3
  • The Manchester & East Midlands Rail Action partnership has been leafleting homes to canvass support for its reopening campaign.2023 January 11, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: North West”, in RAIL, number 974, page 18

verbTo distribute leaflets.

  • During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant.
  • The leafleter who takes reasonable care not to block the sidewalk, who does not become involved in incidents of violence, and whose leaflet is truthful, has the right to leaflet undisturbed.2011, Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross, Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

More sentences with leaflet

  • A trijugate leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.From the entry trijugate
  • Read the included leaflet for instructions.From the entry included
  • “Let me see!” Chloe pulled the leaflet out of Annabelle’s hand.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry huff off
  • Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate.2008, Tracey Parker, Trees of Guatemala, page 408. From the entry erostrate
  • The margins of the heart-shaped, cloverlike leaflets are edged with purple on this 1' to 2' plant.1997, Randy Seymour, Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park, page 40. From the entry cloverlike
  • The stomata are ranunculaceous (anomocytic) and confined to the lower leaflet surface.1993, Klaus Kubitzki, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, page 349. From the entry ranunculaceous
  • Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, →ISBN, page 495. From the entry nickel
  • Leaflets in Arabic on some subjects, distributed to and through Mukhtars, might do good.1919 October 17, “Palestine Notes”, in The Near East, volume XVI, number 441, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices…. From the entry mukhtar
  • When the Olympic torch started out from Plymouth, LOCOG officials confiscated leaflets advertising an Olympic breakfast at a local café.2012, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report. From the entry Olympic breakfast
  • Chloe pulled the leaflet out of Annabelle’s hand.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry brute force
  • Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon.2009 June 4, Sarah Lyall, “British Minister Quits, Dealing New Blow to Brown”, in New York Times. From the entry peppily
  • Annabelle huffed off with the rest of the leaflets.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry huff off
  • As long as “discouraging intellectual argument” can fit on the back of a “Focus” leaflet, that is fine.2006 October 11, Stewart Jackson, “NHS Workforce and Service Development”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 329. From the entry student union politics
  • The Doll is aware of the problem and is re-printing the HC12 leaflet, but cannot say when it will be distributed.1996 April 27, “Tights error”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 549. From the entry re-print
  • Stuffing ACT UP leaflets into the office door's mailslot.1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry mail slot
  • We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.1966, Monro MacCloskey, Secret Air Missions, R. Rosen Press, →OCLC, page 36. From the entry nickel
  • It is characterized by its erect, shrubby habit, silvery pubescence, large flowers, narrow leaflets, and manner of fructal dehiscence.1924, Ivan Murray Johnston, The Botany (The Vascular Plants), California Academy of Sciences, page 1044. From the entry fructal
  • Her proud eye spectacles are the most prominent of her accessories as she wolves down leaflets, brochures and footnotes of information about the legal system.2020, Shikha Singh, A Barrel of Honey (Life’s Peril), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh: Booksclinic Publishing, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry wolve down
  • Western honey mesquite is distinguished from P. velutina by its jugate leaves and relatively narrow, often large, and rather widely spaced leaflets.2001, Richard Stephen Felger, Matthew Brian Johnson, Michael Francis Wilson, “Fabaceae”, in The trees of Sonora, Mexico, Oxford University…. From the entry jugate
  • I think I have some sample leaflets here. (Opens a briefcase and takes out a pamphlet with some colored pages in it) See!1934, Boyce Loving, Swappers: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 25. From the entry cowlet
  • Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386. From the entry sandwich board
  • That is, the broad oval leaflets are all set around the tip of a common leaf stem, spreading in a circle, like the ribs of a palm leaf fan.1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, “In the Tree Tops”, in The How and Why Library. From the entry palmate
  • And in each case, they spoke about how the old tools of information warfare—radio channels, television shows, leaflets, letters—have now been joined by digital tools that make it more powerful.2018, Carl Miller, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN. From the entry information warfare

Meaning of leaflet

  1. noun One of the components of a compound leaf.
  2. noun A small plant leaf.
  3. noun A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.

Full definition of leaflet

Questions about leaflet in a sentence

How do you use leaflet in a sentence?
Leaflet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.”
What is a short sentence with leaflet?
“Read the included leaflet for instructions.”
What does leaflet mean?
Leaflet means one of the components of a compound leaf.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leaflet (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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