let
Usage
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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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And she warns that artificial intelligence will let YouTube’s creators make better, longer videos for the same money, bringing them closer to competing with Netflix’s own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Despite the alleged spooky activity, she doesn’t plan to let go of the home, hoping to “hang onto” it “well into retirement,” and someday pass it onto her children.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Oh my God, I’d love to tell you, but Laura won’t let me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Brand previously told jurors that Great Ormond Street Hospital didn't let him stay with his son due to "material that had been published in the public eye".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Just a slight tap with your heels and he’ll fly. Each tap, he’ll go faster and faster. But he won’t be able to gallop full out all the time. Pull back and let him slow.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
So, again, she and her companions made a fresh essay to go past them; but they letted them in their way.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
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
His squiers, which that stoode there beside, Excused him, because of his sickness, Which letted* him to do his business: *hindered None other cause mighte make him tarry.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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
At the opening of the sixth, that which letted is taken out of the way, namely the heathen Roman Empire.
From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton
I knew every time I did that bit, I was challenging them without letting them know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
It takes a fine writer—and a great deal of narrative specificity—to avoid letting these lessons become rote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Options could include using a spooky fake skeleton hand to share out treats, rather than letting children reach into a bowl, or dressing up to meet trick or treaters.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Schoenbrun’s talent for image-making, however, ends up shouldering much of that weight, letting intricate ideas about identity and personal relationships to digital media sit gracefully atop beautifully rendered cinematography.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
And if I didn’t cut it off right there, it would hit me with the big one, in spite of me letting it know it was unwelcome.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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