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Example sentences for "let the"

  • Let the bells in yonder monastery toll, For the night rack nestles dark round the body stiff and stark, And unshriven to its Maker flies the soul.

  • Let the King's fed-esl [woman who serves him food or nurse] be paid for with 20 shillings.

  • If a man carry off a widow not under his own protection by right, let the mund be twofold.

  • If any one, with libidinous intent, seize a nun either by her raiment or by her breast without her leave, let the bot be twofold, as we have before ordained concerning a laywoman.

  • And please, as Glaucon said, to exclude reputation; let the just be thought unjust and the unjust just, and do you still prove to us the superiority of justice'.

  • Still, he said, let the point be cleared up, and the enquiry will then be complete.

  • Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.

  • In like manner, as far as the sovereignty of the States cannot be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of every good citizen must be, Let the former be sacrificed to the latter.

  • Let the case of the slaves be considered, as it is in truth, a peculiar one.

  • If scorn 'tis vain to seek to repel, On me let the scorn be thrown.

  • And to heights of rapture raised, Let the knight so crafty peep At his maiden while asleep, Through her lattice-window glazed.

  • Let the candle be," said the veteran, winking in momentary forgetfulness of his responsible position.

  • Magdalen had only to push them to let the daylight in on the litter inside.

  • Don't let the question of terms cause you an instant's hesitation.

  • Miomandre and Tardivet: let the names of these two Bodyguards, as the names of brave men should, live long.

  • Let the traveller, as he passes through Lucerne, turn aside to look a little at their monumental Lion; not for Thorwaldsen's sake alone.

  • He let the prompt-book fall from his hands and reached them both out to me.

  • In her cap and apron, I let the doctor in and myself out.

  • Let the King's foes admire Who do reject him; Seeing God doth him inspire, And still direct him, To heal those evil sores, And them to cure By his most gracious hand And prayers pure.

  • So let the bells in steeples ring, And music sweetly play, That loyal Tories mayn't forget The twenty-ninth of May.

  • Well, let the truth be where it will, We're sure all else is ours; Yet these divisions in our religions May chance abate our powers.

  • He wants us to let the king's prisoners go, as if we had any authority to release them, or he to order us to do so!

  • Let the three-headed guardian of the gate, And all the monstrous progeny of hell, The doleful concert join: a lover dead Methinks can have no fitter obsequies.

  • The messengers came back soon after to the king's house; but the doorkeepers saw it, and reported it to the king, who told them not to let the messengers in.

  • Then he let the booty be divided, and this took up some time.

  • Now he did so, and consulted his friends, who all gave him the advice to let the ambassadors, in the first place, go home in safety.

  • To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.

  • Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins.

  • Before the week was out, however, Alfred found occasion to tell her that it would be wiser for her to let the round-up go on without gracing it further with her presence.

  • I told him not to let the ride be hot or dusty," remarked Madeline.

  • Let the face be never so intense or fierce, there was a commentary of gentleness in the hands, essential to be taken along with it.

  • Let the traitors be exhibited in the face of day!

  • If they have such hardihood, let the file of the Bleater strike them dumb.

  • For reasons born of this experience, he let the thing go by.

  • Let the Sergeant's daughter stand on yonder rock, and she will see the manner in which we ignorant backwoodsmen get over a difficulty that we can't get under.

  • On the ocean the water is never still, let the air be as quiet as it may.

  • Don't let the fear of a battle keep your pretty eyes from sleeping.

  • If it should jump out of at canoe," interrupted Jasper, smiling, thought he was evidently more disposed than his friend to let the passage of the falls be forgotten.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "let 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:
    brown fricassee; heard voices; let him come unto; let the; letter addressed; letter came; letter from the governor; letter home; letter received; letter sent; letter which; letter writing; letters and; letters were; letters written; lettuce leaf; lettuce leaves; member much; not from; other purposes; person who; principal crops; principal part; public utility; shall leave; strong contrast