Sentence examples for let alone know how from inspiring English sources

Let alone know how to pronounce hippopotamus.

Do children really need to meet the parents, let alone know how they died?

Mr. Icahn may be a brilliant investor — he actually doesn't get enough credit or respect for that — but let's be honest, he doesn't use a computer, let alone know how to run Yahoo.

It's hard to have a conversation today with any worker, teacher, student or boss who doesn't tell you some version of this: More things seem to be changing in my world than ever before, but I can't quite put my finger on it, let alone know how to adapt.

Other teachers said that it is hard to judge what influence aspects of diversity have, let alone know how to act on the perceived differences among students.

When John Elkington helped set up a consulting company called SustainAbility in 1987, few people had heard of the word, let alone knew how to spell it.

Fifteen years ago, the concern we had to address was that people wanted to get on in life.... Today, people are struggling, but think no political party understands what life is like for them, let alone knows how to improve things.

"I mean, a frightened girl would have been unlikely to know how to cut the umbilical cord, let alone know to clamp it.

They were dealing with a mass of heavily traumatized ordinary people; it was not easy to come to grips with the suffering, let alone to know how best to help.

Let alone do we know how to deal with actual consequences: how to tourniquet catastrophic bleeds, or make fires, or hunt fish. .

Rarely does that happen in Italy, where the players, let alone the coaches, know how to exploit the numbers.