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Example sentences for "permits"

Lexicographically close words:
permission; permissionnaires; permissions; permissive; permit; permitt; permitte; permitted; permitteth; permitting
  1. Its programme Mr. von Bennigsen has developed before you clearly and comprehensively, almost more so than nay strength at the present moment permits me to do.

  2. The candidates borrow the money at a high rate of interest from some Armenian business house, while the government permits these "lease-holders" to recoup themselves by the exploitation of their provinces to whatever extent they wish.

  3. In work it gathers up the loose hay, and when full a tipping mechanism permits the emptying of the load.

  4. This remarkable structural likeness to the old harps of Egypt and Assyria may be accidental, but permits the plausible hypothesis of Eastern descent.

  5. This plan permits of the evaporation of much of the strong flavor, which arises in the steam and which would otherwise be reabsorbed by the cabbage.

  6. Although cabbage permits of numerous methods of preparation, plain boiled cabbage finds favor with many persons.

  7. The yolk is divided from the white by a delicate membrane, which permits it to be separated from the white when an egg is carefully broken.

  8. The water permits the peppers to steam during the first part of the cooking.

  9. It makes no material difference one way or the other, but usually he permits her to go ahead and follows closely enough behind to open the doors for her and to receive whatever instructions the head waiter has to offer.

  10. She never permits intimate attentions from her immediate employer or any one else.

  11. It is personality which permits one man to do a thing that another would be shot for.

  12. Nature directs every one of us, and God permits us, to consult our own private good before the private good of any other person whatsoever.

  13. Count Orso permits a half-tone of paternal severity to point his kindly hint that time is passing.

  14. I've issued grazing permits for the Upper Range: and it only remains to get your permission to drive them across the land that is not Forest Range.

  15. This is better than placing the towels on a nail against the wall as is usually done, and it permits them to dry out quickly.

  16. Only a ball or cotillion permits a low gown, and then the gown is not "low" in the usual sense: it is merely cut out modestly in the neck and the sleeves are short.

  17. Sometimes he permits her to precede him in the first case.

  18. It is a practice so much worse than smoking, so thoroughly abominable in itself, that no man with any claim to good breeding or good manners permits himself to indulge in it.

  19. It does not destroy the shape and permits the petticoat to lie smoothly over the hips.

  20. The Hamburger authorities in this, and some other cases, set up a sort of excise officer, and grant permits for this frivolity, and that vice, at a regular scale of charges.

  21. He permits the worst to be told to him, and even rewards the narrator.

  22. While he, Not to disturb fair freedom's blest appearance, Permits the frightful ravages of evil To waste his fair domains.

  23. Happy, thrice happy he, whose envied lot Permits to breathe the selfsame air with you!

  24. Juja House, as has been said, stands back a hundred feet from a bend in the bluffs that permits a view straight up the river valley.

  25. Your small outfit permits greater mobility than does that of the English cousin, infinitely less nuisance and expense.

  26. The perfect simplicity and completeness of the method of vanishing permits of its being repeated any number of times, each successive change or disappearance causing fresh wonderment.

  27. When the size of the room permits of it, the performer should have, besides his oblong table in the centre, one or two small round tables at the sides.

  28. Brunhild's anger continues to accompany Sigurd through life, and she even seeks to compass his death, while OEnone, called to cure her wounded lover, refuses to do so and permits him to die.

  29. Her short gown permits the utmost freedom of motion, also, and she, too, is generally accompanied by a hound.

  30. Brahms permits the bassoon to intone the Fuchslied of the German students in his "Academic" overture.

  31. The reservoirs are nearly cubical, presenting in front the strong glass of Saint Gobain, which permits of the interior being seen.

  32. When the animal is pursued or threatened with danger it discharges a jet of the fluid, which renders the water thick and muddy, and permits it to escape in the obscurity from its pursuers.

  33. Our space only permits us to mention, among the more curious, Cassis canaliculata (Fig.

  34. This water preserves the gills, however, when the animal is dry, which permits them to live on shore, where they frequently contrive to creep over great distances in search of water.

  35. In connection with the snails (Helix), we shall note some kindred genera which our space only permits us to name.

  36. Our space only permits us to notice the Chimæra and Sturgeon.

  37. An indispensable condition for this is an average wage which is adequate not only to the reproduction of the working population but permits its continual increase' (Theorien ueber den Mehrwert, vol.

  38. With his love of paradox he actually permits himself the joke of submitting a mathematical proof that accumulation of capital and expansion of production are possible even if the absolute volume of production decreases.

  39. I believe that the Power above us, who permits evil to be because only from pain and sorrow comes purification, has not permitted the life of this beautiful young girl to be darkened in vain.

  40. At the mention of a strange caller, she must needs see him before she permits him an interview--for that is what she meant.

  41. It is their influence which keeps upon the statute-books of New York state the infamous law which permits divorce only for infidelity, and makes it "collusion" if both parties desire the divorce.

  42. Ten movements concentrated upon those muscles whose deficiency permits the drooping of the shoulders will be more valuable than a hundred for the legs.

  43. I must add my conviction, that by no other variety of training can the efforts be so accurately directed to the muscles whose weakness permits the distortion of chest which is often the exciting cause of the malady.

  44. Since Neradol D usually is employed in comparatively small quantities, it has been imperative to find a method which also permits of the detection of smaller quantities of Neradol D.

  45. The synthesis permits of more definite evidence as regards the structure of the resulting compounds.

  46. In most states she is not free to conclude agreements without the consent of her husband, unless she be engaged in business on her own account, which recent legislation permits her to do.

  47. The Greek Church, it must be remembered, permits a single marriage to a priest.

  48. With such an entrance ceremony it may well be surmised that the marriage relation permits the most revolting tyranny.

  49. Such a "superior" personage may even go among these simple country people and abide indefinitely in the midst of them, yet their more righteous contempt never for one instant permits them to be their real selves in his presence.

  50. You could then see her in the common reception-room, or, if the inspector permits it, in the office.


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