let on like

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Seemed nobody had told Pastor Howard either, as he didn’t let on like he thought it was funny.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

He told her he was willin' to have her, and the fool gal let on like she didn't want him.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

Hen had written in a fine, cramped, uneven hand: "You bee carful. bern this up and dent let on like you no anything but i warn you be shure bern this up."

From Cow-Country by Bower, B. M.