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Example sentences for "allow the"

  • When it is raised to allow the water to flow through, it may stick in the valve chamber and refuse to settle back in the seat.

  • Don't allow the steam to vary more than I0 or I5 pounds while at work.

  • Either the cylinder rings leak and allow the steam to blow through, or else the valve is cut on the seat, and allows the steam to blow over.

  • I mean by this, place in all directions to allow the draft to pass freely through it.

  • The New York had gone five miles farther to the east than her usual station to allow the admiral to communicate with Shafter.

  • Finally, the fulleries are no longer forced to suspend work in summer; the water is always sufficiently abundant to allow the employment of two sets of stampere at least, and often even of three.

  • But the depth of mould and earth is too small to allow the trees to reach maturity.

  • It did not take much persuasion on the part of Conway Dalrymple to get the consent of the younger lady to be painted, or of the elder to allow the sitting to go on in her room.

  • Once more she nodded kindly to the girl, and begged her, as she herself had something to discuss with Alexander, to allow the waiting-woman to dress her.

  • Pittia explained that the natives had all left the neighbourhood together with their sheik, therefore it would be well not to allow the soldiers to stray far from camp.

  • The delay caused by the thorns was only momentary, but it had been sufficient to allow the troops to awaken and to clutch their muskets.

  • I called all hands, and cleared it in fifty-five minutes sufficiently to allow the fleet to pass through.

  • If we allow the government to pay our debts," they said, "we become slaves to the government.

  • For they refused to obey the Navigation Laws, and they refused to allow the Church of England to be established within the colony.

  • He refused to allow the soldiers to enter the fort unless Ingoldsby showed him orders in writing either from the King or Governor.

  • However he sent to Leisler asking him to allow the soldiers he had brought to enter the fort.

  • Smith's enemies were unwilling to allow the trial.

  • Derues requested the carpenter's wife to allow the chest to remain in the large workshop, saying he had forgotten something at his own house, and would return to fetch it in three hours.

  • They soon found the whys and wherefores in my letter and appeal to allow the asylum to be reopened.

  • Certainly, if you call it robbery to allow the negroes to go where they please.

  • What had Thalia been about to allow the message of that morning to creep into her comedy?

  • The theologians have helped them to cover the spark with ashes, and naturally they won't allow the ashes to be touched, if they can help it.

  • For this girl's sake Jethro was willing to forego his revenge, was willing at the end of his days to allow the world to believe that he had sold out to his enemy, or that he had been defeated by him.

  • The white man, if he is wise, will decline to allow the Negroes in a mass to grow to manhood and womanhood without education.

  • Authorization for the improvements should be given speedily, with initial appropriations to allow the construction of the new institutions to be undertaken at once.

  • But we cannot realize that promise if we allow the hum of our prosperity to lull us into complacency.

  • Nothing can be a greater error than to allow the children to use the name of God on every trifling occasion.

  • Allow the butter to get very hot before putting in the tomatoes.

  • It should then be put upon the salting board (a smooth wooden board), placed in a slanting position, or upon a board with numerous perforations, in order to allow the blood to freely flow down.

  • Boil about ten minutes, remove boiler from the fire and allow the cans to cool in the boiler.

  • Grease a frying-pan very slightly with butter or oil, pour in two tablespoons of the batter, tilting the pan so as to allow the batter to run all over the pan.

  • Allow the solution to cool before removing them.

  • If preferred, the top might be arranged as a drainer, by making it of well-seasoned hard wood, with a number of inclined grooves to allow the water to run into the sink.

  • Allow the rolls to become very light, and bake.

  • Great apprehension was also entertained, that the colony itself would revolt: and with difficulty the tribunes were prevailed upon to allow the war to be attended to first.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allow the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allow him; allow himself; allow myself; allow them; allow themselves; allowed myself; allowed them; allowing the; allowing them; bold relief; caused them; devoted friend; fetch water; foreign lands; hour afterward; large blocks; looking from; mediaeval thought; military convention; said cheerfully; save for; simple explanation; though expecting; view them; while lying; write their