LET'S in a Sentence

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For LET'S, below is one of 187 sentences:
This is not fat, it is a massive hunk of shoulder muscle that lets the wolf break animals' spines with a swipe.

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 Meanings and Examples of LET'S
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
let's
 v.  let us
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Now the Yankees are talking about letting the darkies vote.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  "It's the amendment letting the darkies vote, you know," he explained.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  The only beneficiary of letting Hillary continue in her lunacy is the media and the Republican party.
17  He made about a dozen long gasps, his breast lifting the Bible up when he drawed in his breath, and letting it down again when he breathed it out -- and after that he laid still; he was dead.
18  Obviously letting things run their natural course has not resulted in such a representative diversity!
19  He lets them fetch dinner from a cooking-school in the neighborhood.
20  This spacious travel amenity kit lets you bring all the comforts of home.
21  If regulation is bad then lets get rid of the police department as well.
22  This is not fat, it is a massive hunk of shoulder muscle that lets the wolf break animals' spines with a swipe.
23  Another highlight is a feature that lets you dictate e-mails, Tweets and Facebook posts without having to type.
24  Recurring billing service lets you get paid automatically on a regular basis.
25  The true artist lets nothing come between himself and his work.
26  He's the kind of man who makes things happen but lets others take the credit.
27  He never lets those long silences develop during dinner.
28  It lets sunlight in but doesn't let heat out.
29  This option lets you create new files or directories.
30  She lets her son select his own Christmas present.