let
Usage
What are other ways to say let?
The verb let is the familiar, conversational term for both allow and permit. Allow and permit are often interchangeable as terms that imply granting or conceding the right of someone to do something, but permit is the more positive of the two. Allow implies complete absence of an attempt, or even an intent, to hinder. Permit suggests formal or implied assent or authorization.
Example Sentences
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Barabak: There will be much critiquing to come, so let me start by paying both gentleman a compliment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife once employed 13 specialists dedicated to resolving human-wildlife conflicts, but it let all but one of them go after funding ran dry in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
It will also let them decide on privacy settings for their account.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
"My own editors wouldn't let me publish a scoop based on a single anonymous source, and here you are telling me I'm a spy," he recalls in his book.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
I can’t let Alex or any of them get hurt, let alone die.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Some of his company, and specially Roger and Stephen, would have letted him; but he laughed and said, "Why, lads, why? these be friends."
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
This is brought to passe safely two waies, by suffring and seruing handsomly nature, if it thruste it oute readily and kindely: and helping nature, if it be letted, or be weake in expellinge.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius
Then when she was letted of her evil will, she ran to King Anguish and told him on her knees what traitor he had in his house.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Albeit he spake sparingly against holidays, when he gave advice to that distressed and lately reformed church, lest the work of reformation should have been letted, yet he did not allow holidays among them.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
So, adding ‘The Reason’ and ‘Is This Love’ into the set was a big thing and letting it dedicate to love that is sustaining and getting through it, the highs and the lows,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Once they arrived, Daniel said he stayed in the background, letting Albie-Junior enjoy the experience as "it was his thing".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I told him so, refusing to comply and letting him know that he shouldn’t be giving away money he needed to borrow.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
But on Monday the credits finally began to roll as California Attorney General Rob Bonta extracted a bounty in return for letting Paramount Skydance acquire the Hollywood studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
She presses her lips together to form a tight line, letting me know she is done talking about it.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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