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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This time, she told Doubao, a Chinese AI chatbot, what she wanted and let it narrow the choices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
He was let go by Sarries following another incident in St Albans, which police are investigating.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Growing intake while cutting the cost of each customer is hard to do, and it let the margin recover meaningfully while the group kept investing in growth,” the analyst notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It’s a film that knows yearning doesn’t cease no matter how long we live, and that it’s all too easy to let fear complicate what should be easy.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
The beautiful hunter didn't let him remain on his knees, for he was the squire of a very famous knight, she said.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
At the opening of the sixth, that which letted is taken out of the way, namely the heathen Roman Empire.
From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton
So folk followed them down to the ships, and all letted them of their journey, but attained to naught therein.
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda 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
"Papa letted me come," he said gaily, "and Peggy's here, too,—there!"
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
“Wicker” wisely uses its silly conceit to its advantage, rather than letting it dominate the film’s central conversations.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
San Clemente often ran two-way star Jaxson Rex out of the Wildcat formation, letting the Brigham Young commit’s athleticism take center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Am I locking up too much money now instead of letting it grow another three or four years?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
They’re now 2-4 after their kicking game keeps letting them down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Now I’m sitting at the kitchen table with my sketchbook, a mallard’s feather, and a selection of my graphite pencils, letting what Dr. Crowchild said percolate.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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