Sentence examples for allow to sing from inspiring English sources

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able to sing

The phrase "allow to sing" is not correct in English as it is missing a subject or object.
You can use it in contexts where you want to express permission for someone or something to sing, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The teacher allowed the students to sing during the assembly."
Alternatives: "permit to sing" or "let sing".

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Marian Anderson, the first great black classicalcontralto, whom the Daughters of the American Revolution would not allow to sing in an unsegregated Constitution Hall, who then was asked by EleanorRoosevelt to sing at the Lincoln Memorial before thousands was refused a room at the Padre Hotel, Bakersfield.

The New Yorker

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We're allowed to sing and dance.

The New York Times

Only birds would be allowed to sing.

The Guardian - Opinion

To this day, women are not allowed to sing.

The New York Times

Penn State students are no longer allowed to sing "Sweet Caroline".

The New York Times

Yet, as he complained later, he was seldom allowed to sing boleros.

The Economist

"You are allowed to sing about love, but not about politics.

The Guardian

Brel is what mime artists would sound like if they were allowed to sing.

The Guardian - Music

"Bobby wasn't downstairs, which is how Dylan was allowed to sing".

The New York Times

(In Iran women are still not allowed to sing as soloists for audiences that include men).

The New York Times - Arts

But she is allowed to sing the song in concert, she said, and often closes her club shows with it.

The New York Times

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