make allowances
Example Sentences
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When you make allowances for paying less payroll and income tax, finally get rid of your mortgage and reduce your day-to-day traveling expenses, you will hopefully cut at least 20% each month.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
People make sense even when they aren’t sensible; but science, when it doesn’t, requires you to make allowances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
It would seem that his stern morality does not preclude him from being practical enough to make allowances when political power is at stake.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023
It also doesn’t make allowances for voting by mail for students away at college, the homebound or those in hospitals, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
“My mum said we need to make allowances for you,” Lily finally said.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
