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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Charlotte Tilbury says one of the biggest things that has driven her career is refusing to let other people set limits on what she can do.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’d be huge from their employers to let them have the day off today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
However, there were no windows to let in natural light.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The horsemen accompanying the women were not about to let anyone block the road.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
"The Italian Protestants," wrote Croke to the king, "be utterly against your Highness in this cause, and have letted as much as with their power and malice they could or might."
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude
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
Whiche thynge to shewe in effecte in my selfe, although by fortune some waies I haue ben letted, yet by that whiche fortune cannot debarre, some waies again I haue declared.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius
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
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
The day after the Oscars, Heder recalls that she couldn’t stop crying, all the pressure built up from months of campaigning events and Q&As finally letting itself out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Short-term rental activity" grew 93 percent across four major letting platforms between 2018 and 2024, according to the EU.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Thankfully for Andoni Iraola and Liverpool, Mac Allister did just that by letting his football do the talking in their 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another argument against letting the yuan strengthen too much is the impact it would have on already-weak domestic demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“All I do is herd the kids from one place to the other and give them ice packs if they get hurt. Sylvie’s letting Amber design a whole unit.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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