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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It can establish a liability rule and let incentives do the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
So Sirianni decided to let Jackson know exactly how he felt about him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"And that I should let her have her relationship and not intervene."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
With nearly seven million views on social media, the campaign jingle inspired by the Puerto Rican star calls on people not to "let go of the Brazilian flag."
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
These microscopic animals might be marvels of nature, but no doctor suspects that they have anything to do with disease, let alone infections.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
But first the very trueth is, that I was from the same voyage letted by the Princes letters, which my Master Sebastian Gabota had obtained for that purpose, to my great griefe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
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
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 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
Among the culprits: owners letting their land, the youths delivering the fuel to run the mining machinery, but also "certain officials" in both Ivory Coast and abroad financing illegal mines to reap the profits.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
So, adding ‘The Reason’ and ‘Is This Love’ into the set was a big thing and letting it dedicate to love that is sustaining and getting through it, the highs and the lows,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Out of more than 1,000 empty units he helped audit nationally, on average more than half didn't have a letting agent actively marketing the property.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I told him so, refusing to comply and letting him know that he shouldn’t be giving away money he needed to borrow.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
They were halfway down the bike path before Jonah’s mind kicked into gear, letting him think again instead of just acting on reflex.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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