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Example sentences for "permit the"

  • Every appearance of the jolly negligence which had been so characteristic of life at Wychecombe-Hall, had vanished, when the old coach drew up in the court, to permit the party it had brought from the station to alight.

  • Especially disconcerting was Slidell's refusal to permit the citation of Mocquard's note in proof of Roebuck's assertions.

  • He declined to permit the Georgia to receive coal from her transport, though he was forced to admit that the transport had the right to land it, and that, when landed, the Georgia might receive it on board, like any other coal.

  • South Pass--in the hope that we may find sufficient water over it, to permit the egress of the ship.

  • In October, 1791, it decided to permit the public to attend its discussions.

  • But homage was exacted from a bishop as from a lay vassal, and William refused to permit the pope to interfere in English affairs without his permission in each particular case.

  • Bergmann thought it real, and never after that would he permit the whistle to blow.

  • Along this path a thread was cut in the cylinder so as to permit the needle to indent the foil readily as the diaphragm vibrated.

  • I rushed to a sink, which was only half big enough, and got in as well as I could and wiggled around for several minutes to permit the water to dilute the acid and stop the pain.

  • Its action is that of a filler rather than a binder and no fire-clay wash should be used which has a consistency sufficient to permit the use of a trowel.

  • Illustration: Wrought-steel Vertical Header] Opposite each tube end in the headers there is placed a handhole of sufficient size to permit the cleaning, removal or renewal of a tube.

  • But, apart from this disadvantage, there was nothing to find fault with, the channel being everywhere wide enough to permit the passage of the ship, and the depth in it never less than twenty feet, with a fine sandy bottom.

  • The discussion grew so warm that both he and his assailants at last joined in a request to Mr. Lincoln to permit the publication of the correspondence.

  • It stated that the lift lock was too small to permit the canal-boats to enter the river, so that it was impossible to construct the permanent bridge.

  • The Douglas wing of the Democratic party, which declared indifference whether slavery were right or wrong, extended or prohibited, and proposed to permit the people of a Territory to decide whether they would prevent or establish it.

  • If they should have such deposits, their total would never reach a sufficient proportion safely to permit the investing of an important amount.

  • With the amendment of the National Bank Act, to permit the acceptance of time bills, such ruinous competition would cease.

  • The first section is especially faulty in this respect, and it is extremely doubtful whether its language will permit the consummation of its supposed purposes.

  • A proposal had been made to permit the coachmen to drive their passengers as far as Pskov.

  • The Committee was willing, on the other hand, to permit the possessors of a learned degree not only to settle in the interior but also to enter the civil service.

  • Only the rows of flesh-colored oval faces, that immediately turn up to greet each flight of an airman, permit the strength of forces to be estimated at such great distances.

  • At not a few sections the opposing trenches were near enough to permit the soldiers to converse with their opponents.

  • The great tendency is to permit the forefinger to shirk and to put too much work on the ring finger.

  • A sufficiently wide head on the arrow cuts a hole large enough to permit the escape of excess blood, and, as a matter of fact, nearly all of our shots are perforating, going completely through the body.

  • Two great faults occur at this point: one is to permit the arrow to creep forward just before the release, and the other is to draw the hand away from the face in the act of releasing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "permit 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:
    annual interest; border states; both shores; cold countries; complete revolution; court life; easy sail; excellent illustration; free land; gold and precious stones; large mouth; milk should; permit the; permit them; persuade myself; poor father; spake again; spoke again; sympathy with; tertium quid; wash well; will prevent; wings and tail black