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Example sentences for "let alone"

  • With you they have ridiculed the let alone principle, that is to say, liberty.

  • Some say to us: You are, then, partisans of the let alone policy?

  • But the principle of "let alone" has obstinate enemies.

  • I don't want any friends; I only want to be let alone.

  • The shop people and lodging-house keepers felt that the interests of the country were safer in his hands: than in the hands of people who wanted to meddle with everything for the good of those who were only anxious to be let alone.

  • Moreover, he cannot be in two places at once, let alone half-a-dozen.

  • I was thoroughly done up, and could not even speak when General Ferrars came to me; I only wanted to be let alone to die in peace.

  • I have no patience with your long memories; this nursing of grievances, this raking up of last night's squabbles, is unworthy of a king, let alone a king of Gods.

  • We shall have sport enough with him before long; he will come aboard with no strength left to pick up a gnat, let alone a bull.

  • As to Mycenae and Cleonae, I am ashamed to show them to you, let alone Troy.

  • Even when a cannon is fired over a corpse, and it rises before at least five or six days' immersion, it sinks again if let alone.

  • Even where a cannon is fired over a corpse, and it rises before at least five or six days' immersion, it sinks again, if let alone.

  • A plain thing with nothing even pretty, let alone gorgeous, about it!

  • They must have been bold of heart and strong of resource to enter the Land of the Blue Mountains on any errand, let alone such a desperate one as this.

  • All I want in the world is to be let alone.

  • Over and over she said the words: "I want to be let alone.

  • I want to be let alone, that's what I want.

  • Pretty place to fetch a 'spectable cullored pusson to, let alone a lady!

  • It is astonishing how long these little lonely dilapidated houses hold on if let alone.

  • He found the judge lying flat on his back, with his hands clasping his temples, and praying only to be let alone.

  • I am doing what I think is right, and I want to be let alone.

  • I've carried it on my shoulders and in my heart just as long as I could and live and walk and speak under it, let alone saying my prayers.

  • Species continue; varieties, if let alone, always revert to the normal type.

  • Men who are assiduously poisoning the fountains of religion, morality, and social order, cannot be let alone.

  • Another fact of like import is that varieties artificially produced, if let alone, uniformly revert to the simple typical form.

  • For that's all a bear in a berry-patch asks; to be let alone.

  • His leg we let alone, as the bandage seemed to be all right.

  • In fact, all a bear asks, anyway, is to be let alone, and up here on the mountain these bears weren't doing any harm.

  • I had a talk with Stan about what he was going to do, but some ways he didn't strike me as having the making of a good private of industry, let alone a captain, so I started in to get him a job that would suit his talents.

  • Told me he'd made his pile and that he was tired of living on the slag heap; that he'd spent his whole life where money hardly whispered, let alone talked, and he was going now where it would shout.

  • Why, man alive, I could suffice to a whole people, let alone thee.

  • When wast thou in this house to-night till now, let alone with me?

  • I will lie with half a dozen men, if need be, let alone one.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "let alone" 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:
    let him; let him deny himself; let the; let them; letter addressed; letter came; letter from; letter from the governor; letter home; letter office; letter received; letter sent; letter writer; letter writing; letter written; letters from; letters were; letters written; lettuce leaves; much money; natural language; over the fire until; passing vessel; quarter sessions; said the young officer; still preserved