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Example sentences for "let"

Lexicographically close words:
lest; leste; lestin; lestine; lestins; lete; leten; leter; letero; leteroj
  1. O happy Hungary, if she let herself Be wronged no farther!

  2. And let not this new Charles e'er strike it down, He and his Guelfs, but let him fear the talons That from a nobler lion stripped the fell.

  3. Let, let the Ghibellines ply their handicraft Beneath some other standard; for this ever Ill follows he who it and justice parts.

  4. I said: "As pleaseth her, or soon or late Let the cure come to eyes that portals were When she with fire I ever burn with entered.

  5. He said to them, "If it please you, let me behold the matter, that I may come to climb with you.

  6. Let us go down, let us not delay, for the king has not yet heard of what has happened to him, and his heart will be sad about it.

  7. I said to him, 'Well, let me marry the son of an officer, and he marry the daughter of another officer, as it often happens so in our family.

  8. Inasmuch as I am fated to three evil fates, let me follow my desire.

  9. Let messengers go to every strange land to seek her: and as for the messenger who shall go to the valley of the acacia, let many men go with him to bring her.

  10. If, indeed, you can play games with me, let us play a game, then, of 52 points.

  11. The cabin or air-chamber of men in model, who are let down to work for him, suggests that Egyptians may have used the principle of a diving-bell or air-chamber for reaching parts under water.

  12. We can't let them into the secret: they'd tell everybody.

  13. Then the criminal would be much more likely to steal it and let her go.

  14. And I was tired and hungry, so I thought maybe they'd let me stay overnight with them.

  15. Well, if you do have to go there, let Max or Norman drive you," suggested Mrs. Patterson.

  16. I'll give you the gold pieces if you let me keep my mother's necklace," she pleaded.

  17. First let me tell you about that necklace!

  18. But Mary Louise closed her eyes immediately, resolved not to let anything so trivial bother her.

  19. Wouldn't your mother let me stay at your house if I worked for my board?

  20. If he gives me back the other bill, maybe I'll let him go.

  21. I couldn't let them chickens starve and the garden go to seed.

  22. And maybe Miss Grant will let us take Elsie with us, now that she has some nice dresses.

  23. You can keep your eye open for trouble at night--and let me know if anything happens.

  24. I'll ask Mother--at least, if you'll let me tell her all about what has happened.

  25. Suppose he puts his satchel in here," said Jane, when they were all huddled down in the extremely small space and Mary Louise had cautiously let down the lid, shutting them in absolute darkness.

  26. Yet let any plain, honest man, before he engages in any course of action, ask himself, Is this I am going about right, or is it wrong?

  27. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.

  28. And let not any imagine this to be a slight matter, and that it deserves not to have so great weight laid upon it, till he has considered what evil is implied in it, and the bad effects which follow from it.

  29. Reason, then, being thus included, let us now consider the truth of the assertion itself.

  30. But since nature has placed within us more powerful restraints to prevent mischief, and since the final cause of compassion is much more to relieve misery, let us go on to the consideration of it in this view.

  31. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light, &c.

  32. To conclude: Let us suppose a person tired with care and sorrow and the repetition of vain delights which fill up the round of life; sensible that everything here below in its best estate is altogether vanity.

  33. However, let us hear what is to be said against obeying this law of our nature.

  34. He was not ambitious in the acquirement of knowledge, however, and merely did as he was told--and let it go at that.

  35. As soon as possible let it be introduced into the noisy regions of offices, stores, and factories.

  36. Almost as soon as he was down he was up again, and he had not let go of the satchel.

  37. Better let me lop off a few," suggested Sandy, and they agreed that as the chopping would have to be done quite close to the imprisoned one, a more expert hand had better do it.

  38. Mr. DeVere looked grave when told of the accident, and after a moment or two of thought remarked: "I wonder if I had better let you girls keep on with this moving picture work?

  39. Alice, with a frank laugh, as she let down her hair, preparatory to putting it up again, in the general process of "dressing.

  40. I never would have let you go through that scene if I had dreamed of any danger.

  41. I reckon we can let him go, seeing that he didn't really do anything except take the auto, and I guess the doctor won't press that charge.

  42. I won't let him bite you, anyhow," promised Tommy, kindly.

  43. At first Russ had an idea of speaking to Mr. DeVere about Sandy's theory concerning who might have let loose the bull; but, on second thoughts, he decided not to.

  44. But maybe if you paid him what he thought the barn was wuth he'd let you fire it.

  45. Have you any papers to show that your father let him have the money?

  46. Do you think I'd let an act like this get past me?

  47. Don't let Mr. Sneed get gloomy on such a fine day!

  48. I once Tried it in the country of the Dull Mynheers, and here it also Will do service; let us smoke then!

  49. Therefore let us now make ready For ourselves a rustic dinner.

  50. The wrinkles on thy lofty brow Let them go on increasing, They are the scars which show us how Thought's struggle was unceasing.

  51. And thou, my heart, mirth also show, Forget what thou hast suffered; Let bygone times and bygone woe With flowers sweet be covered.

  52. However, let that go, I am not fearing Whatever purpose thou mayst serve my song; Now that a new edition is appearing, I send my greeting home with it along.

  53. With the golden wine of Grenzach, With a hearty grasp of hands thus Let us seal our new-made contract.

  54. Therefore, let us ring our glasses To our noble guest's good health, and To the excellent musicians.

  55. His shouts resound across the Rhine: 'O let me in, thou sweetheart mine!

  56. He would urge all Evangelicals never to preach in a surplice, but to let the black gown be a badge of those who faithfully preach Christ.

  57. There are about 150 sittings, let at from 4s.

  58. There are, however, the seeds of what, let us hope, may prove a future moral and spiritual harvest.

  59. Under his popular ministry the congregation rapidly increased and reached its full dimensions, which it retained to the end of the three years itinerant term, every sitting being let and occupied, and the aisles also generally being crowded.

  60. If they desire to have superb structures, and are prepared to pay for them, let them take care they have full value for their money; if otherwise, and they have only moderate means, still let them get as much as their funds can procure.

  61. And let me here suggest that the advantage will be far greater to those who attend the daily services than to those who are able to attend on Sundays only.

  62. He wondered that they had not let him know: the omission seemed curious and unfriendly.

  63. And then he added: "But, come, don't let us waste time.

  64. One night he returned from the theatre and a succeeding supper party at half-past twelve, let himself into the flat with a latchkey, threw off his coat and stood before the fire.

  65. And, let philosophers say what they will, happiness does not lie in anticipation.

  66. And the little doctor let his imagination run loose until his light eyes were dim with absurd tears.

  67. But she only repeated vehemently: "Let go, let me go!

  68. And they let themselves out while he retreated once more down the stairs.

  69. She let her body yield, and he drew her in front of the glass that stood over the mantelpiece.

  70. Why ever did you let me be on my own with him?

  71. The glass had been let down and the two friends beheld a continuously blurred prospect of London framed in racing raindrops and intersected by the wooden framework of the movable shutter.

  72. Attention and observation directed towards the object of satisfying yourself that the man--myself, let us say--was mad?

  73. An hour later, Miss Porter suddenly appeared in her bright, cheerful kitchen, bearing a beautiful babe in her arms, while a tender expression seemed to have softened and illumined her usually grave, almost austere face.

  74. I do not know; no one knows,” he answered, with cruel indifference.

  75. Ah, this explains why she was so insistent that I should never part with the cricket!

  76. He did know it, Allison; but he asserted, as you know, that I stole the keys from the drawer in the table, while I was here that Saturday afternoon.

  77. I never heard of him before, although Judge Haight seemed to recognize him.

  78. Thanks for this souvenir--I never saw anything more lovely.

  79. My fidelity to my employer’s interests demands that if I find a burglar in the act of robbing his bank I must guard them to the extent of the law, even though its clutch falls upon a confidential clerk.

  80. He must pause and listen to the agonies of this birth, striving vainly to absorb the commotion into himself and to let it subside into clear visions of the future.

  81. This gives no account of his dealings with books in the previous five years, when he was not a shareholder in the Athenaeum, nor does it, of course, let us know anything of what he obtained from other sources.

  82. In coming home we sailed over a place, not far from the Images, where Mr. White has, at some time, let down a line four hundred feet without finding bottom.

  83. And with this pleasure, let there be something of honor and reverence for his pure young heart.

  84. Of course she spoke polite and like a friend; Of course she had to do, and so I let her, But now it's done and past, so I forget her.

  85. And when thy death comes, Master, let us bear it As of Thy will, however hard to go; Thy Cross is infinite for us to share it, Thy help is infinite for us to know.

  86. I'm here, not you, let that be understood.

  87. O God, dear God, don't let the woman take My little son, God, not my little Jim.

  88. The law's the law and not half strict enough, Forgers and murderers are misbegotten, Let them be hanged and let them be forgotten.

  89. And of reserve, let no man know anything about thee.

  90. Reader, let each one who would seem to be righteous take unto himself this leaven.

  91. They can do much harm, and had far better let the sinners seek peace their own way in the wilderness than ram it down their throats during the night.

  92. However, no more of what might have been, let us proceed to what was.

  93. Never let us hunt after a subject, unless we have something which we feel urged on to say, it is better to say nothing; who are so ridiculous as those who talk for the sake of talking, save only those who write for the sake of writing?

  94. Alps, and from Basle to Strasburg, where we ascended the cathedral as far as they would let us without special permission from a power they called Mary, and then by the night train to Paris, where we arrived Saturday morning at ten.

  95. Simply let us not talk about what we do not understand, save as learners, and we shall not by writing mislead others.

  96. The best policy of those in power would be so to moderate this conflict as to let it right itself without the destruction of either element.

  97. But if he is to commit himself to another's experiences and his way of putting them, let him consider that he has to do with three things--the object in question and two subjects.

  98. Well is it for him if he is gifted by nature with a sober, quiet temperament; neither to make claims on the world out of all proportion to his position, nor yet let the world determine it.

  99. First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

  100. For the strenuous man the difficulty is to recognise the merits of elder contemporaries and not let himself be hindered by their defects.

  101. In studying the human form, let the painter reject what is exaggerated, false, and mechanical; but let him learn to grasp of what infinite grace the human body is capable.

  102. I am quite prepared to find that many a reader will disagree with me; but when he has a thing before him in black and white, he must let it stand.

  103. No one is the master of any truly productive energy; and all men must let it work on by itself.

  104. If a man cannot lift a stone himself, let him leave it, even though he has some one to help him.

  105. If a man has always let himself think the world as bad as the adversary represents it to be, he must have become a miserable person.

  106. Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

  107. You can fool no more money out of me at this throw: if you will let your lady know I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my bounty further.

  108. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.

  109. Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow; Let me be clear of thee.

  110. Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him; let me alone.

  111. Nay, I'll come; if I lose a scruple of this sport let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

  112. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let summer bear it out.

  113. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants: let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity: She thus advises thee that sighs for thee.

  114. Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private; go off.

  115. And now we are here in the same place, and on just such another day, let us talk about it.

  116. No, you've got to let it alone," said she, guessing his intention.

  117. No, Margery," he said, "please let us sit here.

  118. Frank slowly let his eyes rest on her, but he did not answer her smile.

  119. Well, don't let us visit the scene of my crimes to-night.

  120. He was afraid of being alone, and the only way to teach him not to be afraid was to let him learn in solitude that there was nothing to be afraid of.


  121. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "let" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accede; accord; admit; allow; arrest; assume; authorization; believe; bleed; blockade; broach; charter; check; closure; conceive; conclude; consent; consider; constriction; cramp; daresay; decant; deduce; deem; delay; depress; detention; dispense; divine; draft; drain; draw; dream; employed; empty; enable; entitle; exhaust; expect; fancy; farm; feel; fixation; gather; grant; hampering; have; hire; hired; holdup; imagine; impediment; infer; inhibition; interference; interruption; job; lease; leave; let; license; mercenary; milk; obstruction; occlusion; opine; opposition; paid; permit; pipette; prefigure; presume; presuppose; pump; reckon; release; relieve; rent; rental; repression; repute; resistance; restraint; restriction; retardation; say; setback; sink; siphon; squeeze; stranglehold; stricture; sublet; suck; suffer; suppose; suppression; surmise; suspect; take; tap; think; understand; vouchsafe


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    let her; let him; let him deny himself; let the; let them; let you; letter addressed; letter came; letter copy; letter dated; letter from the governor; letter home; letter office; letter received; letter sent; letter which; letter writer; letter writing; letter written; letters and; letters from; letters patent; letters sent; letters written; lettuce leaf; lettuce leaves