Sentence examples for let alone hand from inspiring English sources

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Let alone.

This is used to emphasise how extreme something could be: 'We hadn't got the money to phone home, let alone stay in a hotel.' This emphasises the utter impossibility of staying in a hotel.

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Neither man created a machine to register new voters and support new candidates, let alone hand out patronage jobs.

Ani seems too stubborn to even follow the orders of a fellow female colleague, let alone hand over control of her body to a man.

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The Colts, Saints, and Chargers barely concern themselves with defense, let alone handing the ball to a running back, which makes me think the title might go to the team most able to cover Peyton Manning's jersey in grass, or Astroturf, stains.

His dad was "tough but gentle", a man who didn't raise his voice let alone his hand.

A switch was made, and from the first sight of my mother's back, her long blond hair swaying loosely over her fair skin, my father couldn't keep his eyes off her, let alone his hands.

And the rest was the fact that I barely knew how to take care of myself, let alone be handed a fragile life solely dependent on me.

Even though I had never even kissed a boy at this stage of my life, let alone held hands, that word stung and I somehow believed it to be true.

He can hardly be expected to nibble at — let alone bite — the hand that feeds him.

Having failed to stop the Americans and British from launching this war, France, Russia and Germany, which led the anti-war diplomacy, are now intent on denying the victors a special say, let alone a free hand, in putting Iraq back together.

This seemed very natural to me, as the best days of one's life tend to at the time, but I've discovered over 10 years of teaching poetry in the US that it's pretty unusual to have the creative writing people and the theatre faculty housed within the same square mile, let alone in the hands of one great practitioner.

The first two wins were based on the power of the pack, yet Paul James (replaced by a tight-head playing loose-head), Matt Garvey and Dave Attwood were left on the bench in such a crucial game, let alone George Ford and Jonathan Joseph, which handed the initiative straight to the opposition.

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