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Example sentences for "lets"

Lexicographically close words:
lether; leti; letra; letrados; letras; lett; lette; letted; letten; letter
  1. His self-control isn't as complete as most people seem to think it is; he lets go of himself like a petulant child.

  2. There's a path through the corn that Mrs. Owen lets me use.

  3. Of course they're newspaper lies; but if he lets them say all those things he ought to get something to pay for it.

  4. Oh, the poor old soul lets me take it to her as a favour, and says she eats it to oblige me.

  5. Then it will be a sin if Nature ever lets you get a day older," said Trevor, laughing.

  6. He lets our need attain its extremity, that His intervention may appear the more signal.

  7. He lets go of her as though he had been shot, turns and sees the naked arm and the top of the Boy's head.

  8. A helmet in general, but particularly that part which lets down to allow of the wearer's drinking.

  9. These he practises, and lets the superfluous ones fall away, until he secures the requisite control over hand and arm.

  10. He creeps up behind her, you know, and then lets go.

  11. The crack in the embankment which lets a drop or two ooze through is soon a great hole which lets in a flood.

  12. It is tenderest mercy that lets us see that He knows exactly what we are, and yet promises His love and forgiveness.

  13. How wonderful that in a very real sense He attends on our pleasure, as it were, and lets us determine His time to work.

  14. It is 'the Lamb before the Throne,' who opens the roll with the seven seals, and lets the powers of whom it speaks loose for their march through the world.

  15. Now, as long as a man lets the ruling parts of his nature guide the lower faculties, he feels comparatively no pressure from the yoke.

  16. The painted glass stays the eye; shattered, it lets in only the sight of a void and far-off sky.

  17. She is represented as a kind-hearted deity, healing her sick and afflicted followers with honey, which she lets drop from the clouds, and she also keeps watch over the herds grazing in the fields and forests.

  18. Thence it writes out and cancels all the tracery of Monte Rosa, or lets the pencils of the sun renew them.

  19. The child lets his moments pass by and quickly become remote through a thousand little successive oblivions.

  20. She lets her beautiful voice speak, unwatched and unchecked, from the very life of the moment.

  21. Aunt hardly ever lets him come into the drawing-room, and when she does it is generally in order to snub him.

  22. But as long as he lets me see you now and then and treats you well, we may as well be friends.

  23. Uncle Rimbolt is the kindest of protectors, and lets me have far too many nice things.

  24. The owner lets the bare property out on leases, and receives one-half the harvest as rent.

  25. The owner simply lets arable land for the third part of the crop.

  26. Aunt Rachel endeavours to suit her feelings to the occasion, trims her bandana about her head with exquisite taste, and lets the bright-coloured points hang about her ears in great profusion.

  27. Daniel continues, making a gesture with his left hand, as he raises the spectacles from his eyes with his right, and in his fervency lets them speed across the room.

  28. He lets go M'Fadden's arm and seizes him by the collar violently, his face in a blaze of excitement.

  29. The gaoler, who, with his keys, lets loose the anxieties of men, continues his learned remarks.

  30. Daddy, with an exulting nod of the head, as he, to his own surprise, lets fall his cup.

  31. The Gates are open, see they enter in, [eas039] Lets follow them and bid them battaile in the streetes.

  32. Come, lets take our stands vpon this hill, And by and by the deere will come this waie.

  33. Why then lets on our waie in silent sort, For Warwike and his friends God and saint George.

  34. Away my Lord, and flie to London straight, Make hast, for vengeance comes along with them, Come stand not to expostulate, lets go.

  35. Come sonne, lets awaie and leaue him heere alone.

  36. Come lets goe, for if we slacke this faire [eat063] Bright Summers daie, sharpe winters Showers will marre our hope for haie.

  37. The Queene lets fall her gloue, and hits the Duches of Gloster, a boxe on the eare.

  38. It shall suffice, come then lets march awaie.

  39. But staie, heere comes a man, lets listen him a while.

  40. Nor I, Come cosen lets go tell the Queene.

  41. Madam lets go vnto some house hereby, [dah076] Where you may shift your selfe before we go.

  42. If the latter be firm, the trouble passes away to be renewed at a future period till manhood or womanhood is reached, and then guide and teacher who is wise falls back, lays down control, and lets the pupils have their own way.

  43. And Captain Cruel lets you have this dear little cottage?

  44. The ice has closed--I trust it will open well when the wind lets up.

  45. If one lets fires out it means a dead loss of over 2 tons, when the boiler has to be heated again.

  46. Though we are not cousins, we are connections, through your kind Cousin Anne; for she lets me call her my Cousin Anne too.

  47. Lets you have your fun a little, as Clarence tells me; don't you, May?

  48. I said to Tozer at the time, you take my word, whatever folks say, a man as lets his children pull him about like that ain't a bad one.

  49. The King lets her into a Share of Affairs, and leaves the Regency of the Kingdom to her in his Absence.

  50. Adjoining to this Church is a great and magnificent Palace, belonging to Prince Pamphili, who lets it out to the Cardinal Corsini[2].

  51. I shall think so, too, if he lets you have the money.

  52. Had he heard that Maddy was that kind of good which lets folks in heaven?

  53. The gap in the great red cliffs which lets the river and us out to the lowlands is only two or three hundred yards in width, and is filled with a dense growth of trees.

  54. A narrow notch in the bowl southward lets the Uncompahgre break through to the lowlands, and furnishes us with a means of ingress; otherwise the most toilsome climbing would be the only way to get into or out of town.

  55. You know he is a clergyman somehow, and he never lets you forget it; but that's about all.

  56. But he is very good-natured, and lets her do pretty nearly anything that she likes.

  57. After these words, having raised the right arm, he lets it go again.

  58. But if he obtains not the threefold profit, then in the end he abates his earnest efforts, and reverencing religion, he lets go material wealth.

  59. After these words, having raised the right arm towards Soma, he lets it go again.

  60. He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel.

  61. It is rare that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spotting it on some part of its sphere.

  62. To such imaginings, fed by his readings and dreamings on Memphis, and Nineveh, and Babylon, Keats in this book lets himself go without a check.

  63. On a chief argent, a boar's head proper, between two ann'lets sable.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.