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Example sentences for "being allowed"

  • She thought herself highly favored in being allowed an activity so abundant, and so immediately fruitful in results.

  • Most willingly; and I will deserve the honor of being allowed to speak so unreservedly, by not being too modest.

  • As a matter of course, Bella walked with Eric while Roland and Lina roamed about together in the forest, Lina delighted at being allowed to revel in a child's freedom.

  • This day Sultan Cusero had his first prospect of long-hoped liberty, being allowed to leave his prison, and to take the air and his pleasure in a banqueting house near mine.

  • All of these rights turn on skilled advertising and on the science of being believed in, the science of being allowed to be autocrats, the science of being allowed by the people to make their democracy work.

  • He supposed that for some reason or other she was denied; and insisting on being allowed to go up stairs, had entered the room in the abrupt manner which had so greatly alarmed his sister.

  • Her maternal devotion was rewarded by being allowed to keep her three puppies.

  • The magistrates, being allowed to remain only a year or two in the same province, lived there like strangers, without acquainting themselves with the wants of the people they governed; there was no tie between them.

  • I distress you, and would now leave the subject, if I might carry with me a hope of being some time permitted to renew it, of being allowed to make myself known to your family.

  • He appears to have ingratiated himself as much in the favour of the queen, as of the king, being allowed to converse with her in very familiar terms.

  • Instead of being allowed, through the return of peace, to flow into its old channels, it was still more impeded in France and in the countries where the French held sway than it had been during the war.

  • On being informed that he must quit his home, he insisted on being allowed to prepare for his journey: this was refused him.

  • Poor Lavender bore it all with patience; and at our parties, or when we came to London, was amply repaid by being allowed to sit with the gentlefolks, and to fancy himself in the society of men of fashion.

  • Other teams are broken no more than to keep within range, being allowed to hunt all kinds of game, and also rabbits; they, however, are restricted from pursuing wounded flick further than fifty or sixty yards.

  • A quantity fresh from the pump was therefore obtained, and it was thrown up, being allowed to flow back.

  • The country dog gets plenty of exercise, being allowed to sleep in the open air where he pleases outside of his master's cottage, and has but little food, and very seldom any flesh.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being allowed" 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:
    are the; being acted; being allowed; being appointed; being attached; being borne; being careful; being cast; being connected; being detected; being first; being here; being informed; being introduced; being late; being left; being lost; being miserable; being ordained; being shot; being suspended; being wounded; commercial fertilizers; should suppose; that day; wife being