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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“What happened to me was wrong, and I wasn’t willing to let it happen to other people,” English said in the release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
"The evidence as it stands points towards there being no communication. Once the court accepts that, there's no irregularity in this situation, let alone a fundamental irregularity that goes to the root of the trial."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The maker of ChatGPT said Wednesday that it was previewing new technology to some customers that let it detect patterns and safety risks across multiple interactions with its models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was only after Dylan arrived in Russia that he let the family know he was a soldier.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I’m not sure yet. But I’ll let you know,” she replies sweetly.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Some with a Carte, or with Beames under some colour, have letted the gate, that it could not bee shutte, and with this waie, made the entrie easie to the enemie.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres
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
Then when she was letted of her evil will, she ran to King Anguish and told him on her knees what traitor he had in his house.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
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
How came it that some of ye—I know not whom!—thus letted and hindered my messenger?'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
It feels as if he’s letting us in on a private communion with his hero as he deepens his own pianism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Get in front of the problem by letting your team know you have a hard stop at 5 p.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Guardiola describes the tough decision he had to make in letting the midfielder go.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Getting to put this show out into the world and letting girls see that there isn’t something that they should be afraid of, but also letting them see that this is normal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“You came right in here to play your game instead of talking to me. Is Lorren’s mother letting her have more time?”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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