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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They lost at Stadium of Light before Christmas, when Woltemade scored an own goal, so they simply cannot let the Black Cats do the double over them.
From BBC
While EV charging infrastructure grew in 2025, most public chargers have a fraction of the power needed to propel a Semi across America promptly—let alone fleets of them.
“She made herself vulnerable and she finally let her walls down and made herself open to being in a relationship, finding someone,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
The post said that anyone who bought the book would be entered into a prize draw to win their friend's house, which they have to let go due to ill health.
From BBC
But Stepniak senses this is his one opportunity to let the world know what is going on within the prison.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
