let it go by

Example Sentences

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Crawford didn’t let it go by this time, clubbing it over the wall in right just minutes after the roof had finished closing.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024

“We can’t just let it go by the wayside,” said Kirkpatrick.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

There is a carrot that gets dangled in front of him, and as one of the characters says in the movie, he had the brass ring and he just let it go by.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021

“In training, they tell you that if you can’t get to the turkey, just let it go by, because you can injure yourself with the knife,” he says.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2016

I was just leaving the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I sat still to let it go by.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë