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Example sentences for "cannot allow"

  • Therefore he cannot allow us once to think that the coming sinner shall be cast out.

  • He cannot allow them to question his will; for he saith in the text, "I WILL in no wise cast out.

  • But he cannot allow us to question his faithful execution of his priesthood.

  • But he cannot allow us once to question any of these; therefore not once to think, that the coming sinner shall be cast out.

  • And we cannot allow you to pitch your stage in the agora, and make your voices to be heard above ours, or suffer you to address our women and children and the common people on opposite principles to our own.

  • The reviler is always trying to make his opponent ridiculous; and the use of ridicule in anger we cannot allow.

  • Like other pleasures, it has a lawful use; but if a state or an individual is inclined to drink at will, I cannot allow them.

  • I cannot allow myself to be debarred from exercising my own judgment in another matter because you think that what I decide upon doing may not tally with your views as to my defence.

  • I cannot allow this; I cannot allow this,' said Mr. Bolton, when he shuffled down in his slippers.

  • I will not scold you any more, and you have punished yourselves by breaking the box and spilling the sweetmeats, for now I cannot allow you to have any of them.

  • I cannot allow my father to die, I cannot!

  • We cannot allow justice to be set at defiance, and the noblest of the women of Cairo to be shamefully insulted.

  • And yet I cannot allow Masa's father to die, for Masa would weep for him, and her every tear would accuse me.

  • It is not that I desire to break off our engagement; but that I cannot allow my wife to keep the diamonds which belong of right to her late husband's family.

  • I have learned that you are in possession of certain jewels which I cannot allow to be held by my wife.

  • We cannot allow ourselves to lose the train.

  • If it be so,’ said Terrien, ‘we cannot allow Mr. Chiniquy to be condemned.

  • He cannot allow you or any other man, to tear again and spoil that vestment which is the work of His hands.

  • We cannot allow you to be really ill, you know, that would never do.

  • It is not a great relief, and what is more I cannot allow it.

  • We cannot allow business of any sort to be carried on in the house, it would destroy all the rest of the property.

  • It is not given to mortals to know the hour of their death, and I cannot allow myself to be influenced by such folly.

  • Perhaps not; but I, as a Christian, cannot allow you to force her back to Judaism.

  • I grant that your loss is great; but your special pension will maintain three poor families, and I cannot allow you to receive it longer.

  • Sire," replied Joseph, "I will follow your majesty wheresoever you please; but I cannot allow you to be inconvenienced by my visit.

  • Come, come, my dear Sarah, I cannot allow you to scandalise; say that this return of M.

  • Nay, baron, I cannot allow myself to remain in your debt.

  • But this also we cannot allow; for such connexion would be with the causal substance either as unchanged or as having entered on a changed condition; and thus the difficulties stated above would arise again.

  • This also we cannot allow, since this very assumption necessarily implies that one thing appears as another.

  • I would have you understand," said Sanders to the culprit the next day, "that I cannot allow my servants to get drunk; more especially I cannot allow my drunken servants to sleep off their potations on my bed.

  • Let us talk of something else;' or, 'Really I cannot allow you to be always dwelling on painful thoughts.

  • I know nothing of your old woman,' replied his wife; 'but really I cannot allow cheese to come beyond the kitchen.

  • On the 3rd of August I wrote to my government-- THE CHIEF BARON--I cannot allow you to refer to that.

  • I cannot allow you to throw away your future prospects in this childish manner.

  • I cannot allow it to end thus," resumed Lady Verner to Lucy.

  • I cannot allow my wife to be subjected to it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot allow" 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:
    cannot bear; cannot believe; cannot bring; cannot come; cannot conceive; cannot describe; cannot even; cannot forbear; cannot forget; cannot have; cannot here; cannot hold; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot omit; cannot recollect; cannot represent; cannot save; cannot say; cannot see; cannot sleep; cannot tell you how; citrus fruit; great weakness; moral judgment; once and