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Example sentences for "allowing the"

  • Bring the two ends together, allowing the fringe to come on the outside, and fit the point B over the other point B.

  • Make the eyes by running a short piece of broom straw through the head, allowing the ends to stand out a short distance in the place for the eyes.

  • Place the top with the mirror attached on the X, allowing the X to come back directly under the mirror in order that the top may be steady.

  • Lastly, paste the flame on the back of the flame, allowing the tip to flare out at one side as though stirred by a current of air (Fig.

  • Franklin placed pieces of cloth of similar texture and size on snow, allowing the sun's rays to fall equally upon them.

  • The torch head and nozzle can often be cleaned by allowing the oxygen to blow through at high pressure without the use of any tools.

  • Cooling may be accomplished by allowing the fire in an oven or furnace to die down and go out, leaving the work inside the oven with all openings closed.

  • The air line is often dispensed with, allowing the gas to draw air into the burner on the injector principle, much the same as with illuminating gas burners for use with incandescent mantles.

  • Then raise the blow-off lever, allowing the gas to blow off until the gauge shows about two pounds; this to clear the generator of air mixture.

  • Vardon continues: This release is a natural one, and will or should come naturally to the player for the purpose of allowing the head of the club to swing well and freely back.

  • The management of such a valve consists in allowing the balloon to sink spontaneously earthwards, and when it has settled near the ground, having chosen a desirable landing place, to tear open the so-called valve once and for all.

  • If made of some form, or at least some proportion of linen, this will probably rend ere long, and, allowing the gas to escape, will soon bring itself to rest.

  • The government, indeed, should seem to hold out encouragement to suicide, by a very common practice of mitigating the sentence of death, in allowing the criminal to be his own executioner.

  • This being the case, we may probably be not far amiss in allowing the Chinese to have employed this useful and ornamental part of architecture before it was known to the Greeks and the Romans.

  • A book sewn on raised bands, with the thread passed entirely around each band, allowing the book to open freely.

  • A cover without boards or other stiff materials, allowing the sides to be pliable.

  • By allowing the current to enter the right-hand binding-post, as you look at it from the front (Fig.

  • The delicacy of the apparatus is increased by allowing the wire to pass above and below the needle several times as in the next apparatus.

  • If this is the case, "short-circuit" it by allowing the current to run around and around through the sounder and key, the switch being closed.

  • Returning, if, when the pressure is applied, an orifice be made in the cylinder, the water will at once flow out under pressure, allowing the piston to come in contact with the cobblestones.

  • In order to determine what this friction might be, the writer arranged a table standing on legs above the bottom of the chamber, allowing the piston to move freely through a hole in its center.

  • If we now recognize this doctrine by allowing the seceders to go in peace, it is difficult to see what we can do if others choose to go or to extort terms upon which they will promise to remain.

  • They lack one vote of doing that, and I wish I could send my vote over the river so that I might cast it in favor of allowing the negro to fight.

  • We see it, and to us it appears like principle, and the best sort of principle at that--the principle of allowing the people to do as they please with their own business.

  • If they were then establishing the principle of allowing the people to do as they please with slavery, why did they not apply the principle to that people?

  • At three in the morning he started on his march, and afraid of allowing the opportunity to slip, though his men were weary from their long journey, Marlborough determined to assault the Schellenberg that same afternoon.

  • Deprived by law of its power in the Irish Parliament, yet conscious of the impossibility of allowing the country to act as if completely independent, the Government had had recourse to indirect influence for establishing its power.

  • But though, no doubt, the battle of Corunna was an English victory, it was advantageous only in allowing the army to be withdrawn, and left the north-west provinces of Spain and the north of Portugal open to the French.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allowing the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowing the; allowing them; breakfast dish; cannot live; certain moments; certain position; general exercise; grew more; hackney coaches; her shoulders; highly specialized; honey locust; its way; know every; little delay; little shake; military hospitals; our story; sat down upon the; she wasn; strange look; taken prisoners; these should