Sentence examples for let alone known from inspiring English sources

Close examination of the coffee table does reveal a few marks, but none that would have been noticed by me let alone known about by her listeners unless she'd chosen to tell us.

Like many of his fellow rookies, Ryan Spadola, an undrafted receiver from Lehigh, had not even noticed Smith's jersey hanging in the equipment room, let alone known the significance behind it.

— Alexandra Schwartz I've been captivated by Alice McDermott's new novel, "The Ninth Hour," which concerns the reverberations, through three generations, of the suicide of a young man in Irish Brooklyn — the effects of his actions on his pregnant wife and the daughter who is born without ever having had, let alone known, a father.

"Coming from being raised by a single mother working class Bangladeshi background, no one in my family had ever even been to uni, let alone known what the 'media' was, so CA opened up so many doors," says Shabnom Khanom, another CA intern who is now in a full-time role at a PR firm.

Let alone know how to pronounce hippopotamus.

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

Have you ever been surprisingly emotional about the death of someone you never met, let alone knew?

If you would miss these features, let alone know what they are, then you need the full-blown Photoshop.

Today, few men could claim to own a tweed suit, let alone know the differences between a heavy Harris herringbone and a lightweight Donegal dogtooth.

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

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.