Sentence examples for allow to remain from inspiring English sources

Not let?" He's correct in his pristine prescriptiveness: to leave alone is "to allow to remain in solitude," while to let alone is slightly different: "to refrain from disturbing".

They discussed the morbid etiquette of whom you tell about the accident and whom you allow to remain ignorant, and the impulse to game out, pointlessly, alternate versions of the past.

Wrap the area in plastic wrap and allow to remain on for several minutes.

Mr. Waheed will be allowed to remain quietly in Baghran.

"Suppose ISIS is allowed to remain in Mosul," Hussein said.

Kurnosov was allowed to remain in the competition.

He was also allowed to remain in the US.

Habiba: Only journalists were allowed to remain in the building.

Ndereba failed to make the team but was allowed to remain in training camp.

It will be allowed to remain until it naturally decays to background levels, he said.

But the House of Tomorrow and its back-to-the-future kin have been allowed to remain.