LET'S in a Sentence

Learn LET'S from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
187 example sentences for LET'S, such as:
1. The last love is letting go.
2. You're letting your imagination run away with you.
3. Rest your eyes by letting them focus on distant objects.
4. Now the Yankees are talking about letting the darkies vote.
5. Lazy and incompetent police officers are letting the public down.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LET'S
letting
 v.  leave unchanged
 v.  make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
Classic Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Mammy had her own method of letting her owners know exactly where she stood on all matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Then she would make him happy again by letting him discover that, popular though she was, she preferred him above any other man in all the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  He soon found that domestic peace had its price, and that price was letting Scarlett have her own way, no matter what she might wish to do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Now the Yankees are talking about letting the darkies vote.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  I wouldn't trust them any farther than I could see them and as for letting them handle my babies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Others would say you were letting down bars that ought never be lowered one inch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  There's plenty of folks hereabouts who'll have something to say about you letting Sue marry a Cracker--for all that everybody likes Will.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  "It's the amendment letting the darkies vote, you know," he explained.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  Archie thought, and frequently said, that Grandpa was an old bag of wind and Archie had no intention of letting him insult Miss Melanie's husband, even if Miss Melanie's husband was talking like a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
12  She smiled as she spoke, letting her eyes rest on his in a way that took the edge from her banter and made him suddenly malleable to her will.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
13  Lily, who considered herself above narrow prejudices, had not imagined that the fact of letting Gus Trenor make a little money for her would ever disturb her self-complacency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
14  He drew unexpectedly aside, letting her reach the threshold unimpeded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
15  Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  All of life is an act of letting go,but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
2  All the art of living lies in the fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
3  Waiting for you to come back into my life, is just an excuse for not completely letting go of you.
4  He was furious with himself for letting things get so out of control.
5  Rest your eyes by letting them focus on distant objects.
6  The last love is letting go.
7  The engine is letting off steam to relieve the pressure in the boiler.
8  The ecological disaster is partly a product of letting everything rip in order to increase production.
9  Lazy and incompetent police officers are letting the public down.
10  You're letting your imagination run away with you.
11  He drummed road safety into them before letting them out on their bicycles.
12  For Toshiba, the merger is an attempt to distance itself from unprofitable operations by letting Fujitsu effectively oversee its cellphone business.
13  In the end, the Southern Africa supporters of the Zimbabwe government under-estimated the opposition across the Commonwealth, including that of some other African states, to letting Zimbabwe back without progress on democracy and human rights.
14  Since the sauce is a bit watery, it always benefits from letting the pasta sit in it for five minutes before serving.
15  Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car.