How to use "least" in a sentence

I still can't sleep but at least I'm warmer.

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

At least I've survived another night

At least drinking it wasn't as bad as I expected.

'But what about the candlesticks? I gave you those as well, don't you remember? They're silver like the rest, and worth at least two hundred francs

He has at least ten minutes; no jury can make a decision in less than ten minutes.

"I think they're saying two years, at least," said Palo.

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

Sala needed to consider this, at least.

So at least if we were both doing the same thing, it would almost feel like we were together."

"It's the least real thing you could possibly do

What more could she say? Cham's number one consideration right now was his family, and she couldn't stand in the way of that; but she wished that he would at least think about other possibilities.

The woman wore a bright yellow bag on her back, so at least she was easy enough to follow, but she walked rapidly, and Sala was soon breathless.

'At least, she did not think you were

At least not afraid, but...'

She had at least enough time to make a start, box up the boy's clothes, if nothing else.

The choice was filet mignon with Bernaise sauce or lobster in butter sauce, because Las Vegas was the one place in the United States where people at least temporarily set aside concerns about cholesterol

At least a year and a half, maybe two years, had passed since a man had looked at her in quite that fashion

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

At least two or three thousand people were in the casino, which was larger than a football field

At least it wasn't like the Michael Evans she had known for the past couple of years

"There's at least one out there with my name on it."

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

"Obviously, it's somebody who at the very least dislikes you, if he doesn't actually hate you

"Anyway," she said, "even if reopening the grave doesn't help me find who's responsible for these sick jokes - or whatever the hell they are - at least it'll settle my mind about Danny

"At least it was fast

On hot summer days, these barren, sandy slopes seemed godforsaken, and they would not be made lush and green for another ten years at least

"Can you at least tell me how you're leaning?"

At least Kennebeck hadn't refused the request; nevertheless, Elliot had expected a quicker and more satisfying response

At least she'd always thought she didn't believe in it

"At least we're still alive," he said.

At least that was what Elliot wanted to believe.

Even if he really doesn't know why his organization is interested in the exhumation, he'll at least know who his bosses are

"The cops might be a part of it, at least to the extent that Vince's bosses can put pressure on them

"At least for the time being."

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

"I need a change of clothes, at least a toothbrush and a few other things

Elliot said, "If Danny has this incredible power, why is he sending messages just to you? Why doesn't he at least contact Michael too?"

He didn't want to attract the attention of the omnipresent casino security men, and the easiest way to escape their notice was to appear to be the least threatening hick in the huge room

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

He was an unreconstructed fascist and not the least bit ashamed of it

At least I'm honest about my motives, Kennebeck thought as he watched Alexander cross the study

"I know human nature," Alexander said, though he was one of the least observant and least analytical men that Kennebeck had ever known.

"But at least he's not dead," Tina said.

"At least it's never lasted long

At least one killer would be in the house with Bellicosti's corpse

At least one man had been waiting out here in the snow.

Chipping three billion out of Health was the least risky of the Network's funding operations, for Health was so gigantic that it never missed such a petty sum

The Department of Defense, which was less flush than Health and Welfare these days, was nevertheless also guilty of waste, and it was good for at least another billion a year

At least half of the people who worked for it did not even realize it existed; some thought they were employed by the FBI; others were sure they worked for the CIA; and still others believed that they were in the hire of various branches of the Treasury Department, including the Secret Service

At least that was the way George saw it; he thought of himself as heroic

"I suppose any sporting-goods store in Reno ought to have maps of at least the nearest parts of the Sierras."

At least we know this is the right map

You can at least tell me a little of it

"Well," Elliot said, "I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice

And I also believe individuals are always smarter and better adapted to survival, at least in the long run, than any institution

"We're sure to encounter at least a couple of security men, no matter how clever Danny is

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

If security discovers we're here, at least they won't be able to get their hands on us for a while."

It'll take us a little longer that way, but at least we'll have a fighting chance

At least it doesn't have any of the characteristics of a tumor

"At the very least, I'll get more pay."

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

He at least seemed to understand what I said, and told me he would pick me up and take me to my brother's house.

I can think of at least seven people who might be very happy to have Colonel Protheroe dead.'

'She rang at least six times before she went away.'

'At least, yes,' said Miss Marple

We, the people who live on this Earth, must seem to them at least as different and less developed as monkeys are to us

My wife, at least, did not think my experience unbelievable.

I expected at least to see smoke or fire, but there was only the deep-blue sky above and one single star

The ends of the curve slowly moved apart, until at least they formed a line about twelve kilometres long.

'After the tenth shot they fired no more - at least until the first cylinder came.'