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Example sentences for "not allowed"

  • Indeed, I am not allowed to speak unless in answer to a question directly put to me, and then in the fewest possible words.

  • I am not allowed to wear a sword;" and saying this, he dramatically flung wide his cloak, displaying the prohibited weapon hanging from his belt.

  • I am not allowed to speak," objected the monk.

  • By agreement between Mayence, Treves, and myself, I am not allowed to enlighten you regarding the question at issue.

  • An argument to show that a moth can enter where a bee can go is unnecessary, and a little observation, I think, will prove that her eggs sometimes go where she is not allowed.

  • It is stated that when the bees decide an after swarm shall issue, the first queen matured is not allowed to leave her cell, but kept a prisoner there, and fed until wanted to go forth with the swarm.

  • Their fruit is not allowed to come to maturity; but the buds are slit open, and the sweet sap is collected as it drips from them.

  • To insinuate is to command--the native is not allowed to hesitate, he must either please the magistrate, or submit to his persecutions.

  • After these preliminaries, the family honor of the bride is supposed to be satisfied, and she is not allowed to refuse to marry.

  • The ice-head has a very thick and tender leaf, continuing to be excellent up to midsummer, from one sowing; and if not allowed to stand nearer together than six inches, it will produce fine heads.

  • We have previously shown that the profane sciences must never take truths of faith for a positive basis to build upon; they must regard the doctrines of revelation only in so far as it is not allowed to teach anything in contradiction to them.

  • To be sure, the scientist is restricted in so far as he is not allowed to pursue any and every hypothesis, regardless of the immutable truth; he may no longer follow every scientific fashion.

  • And if one does not tell, and is not allowed to tell, official secrets, if one prevents an anarchist from spreading his revolutionary ideas, is this a violation of the unity of the moral personality?

  • This kind of a doubt is not allowed in matters of faith and it is the only one that is forbidden.

  • The good work once begun was not allowed to fall slack, however.

  • He is not allowed to leave the premises by day.

  • The mother is treated with great kindness, and is not allowed in any way to be teased or used harshly.

  • In many cases the pupil is not allowed even to know that he is punished,--i.

  • The bride is radiant with light and beauty; her face is not allowed to be hidden, and her neck, shoulder, and bosom are left bare on one side.

  • Puberty, girls at, not allowed to touch the ground or see the sun, ii.

  • It is conducted beyond the boundary, and is not allowed to return.

  • Kakongo, king of, not allowed to touch certain European goods, i.

  • Sabaea, kings of, not allowed out of their palaces, i.

  • We can therefore understand why in modern folk-medicine the mistletoe is not allowed to touch the ground; if it touches the ground, its healing virtue is supposed to be gone.

  • You are free, Minister von Hardenberg; I am not allowed to attach you to my cause.

  • But the king is not allowed to be as other men are--merely a husband and father; he must think of his people, of his state, and of his royal duties.

  • Had your king not been so weak--had he not allowed himself to be led by a faction which, oblivious of the true welfare of the state and of the sovereign, did their best to exasperate him against me, he would not be where he is.

  • She desires to go into a convent, and give her heart to God, because she is not allowed to give it to me.

  • The only thing she is not allowed to meddle with is the sale.

  • They had to cook for the men and were not allowed a bite till they had finished their meal.

  • To take three cases in place of many Carl Bock relates (67) that among some Borneans tattooing is one of the privileges of matrimony and is not allowed to unmarried girls.

  • In some parts of Dutch Borneo the cruel custom prevails of locking up a girl when she is eight to ten years old in a small, dark apartment of the house, which she is not allowed to leave for about seven years.

  • She spends her time making mats and doing other handiwork, but is not allowed to see anyone--not even of her own family--except a female slave.

  • It's because I'm not allowed to keep two teams.

  • Mrs. Cameron is not allowed to see her husband, who has been here in jail for over two months.

  • With blank faces they turned to the leader, who ordered Charles Sumner to move that the Senator from New Jersey be not allowed to answer his name on an issue involving his own seat.

  • They only answered that girls were not allowed to take such a liberty, as they wore petticoats on purpose to conceal their legs.

  • Then you must make up your mind to start at an earlier hour, for it is Friday to-morrow, and you know the Jews are not allowed to travel after sunset.

  • The only thing I'm not allowed to do is to marry, and it's the only thing I care for.

  • Two arms and two legs, I know, for even a young Lord Popenjoy is not allowed to have more; but of his special graces you might send me a catalogue, if you have as yet been allowed pen and paper.

  • Mary would certainly be disturbed in her mind if not allowed to see her father.

  • If found guilty he must be kept in chains for life in the central penal prison--not allowed to see any freemen--not visited by any one, except the slave who brings to him his daily rations.

  • He is not allowed to praise his own articles, or to take any oath respecting them.

  • In the East the kerosene tin is in universal favour for the carriage of water, and there is no reason why it should not be utilised as a standard measure for preparing the dilute acid solution, providing it is not allowed to become rusty.

  • Similarly, as already argued, the use of too low or too high a standard of dilution (when the factor of distance between partitions is not allowed to vary) is capable of causing much difficulty.

  • That the temperature be not allowed to rise too high.

  • The rubber is not allowed to remain until wholly dry, but is shipped while still containing an appreciable percentage of enclosed moisture.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not 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:
    life interest; material cause; not appear; not ask; not daring; not fear; not forget; not hesitate; not intend; not mine; not mistaken; not necessary; not only; not pretend; not simply; not speak; not surprising; not true; not uncommon; not worthy; notary public; note circulation; nothing against; nothing could; nothing like; nothing wrong