Sentence examples for let alone understanding from inspiring English sources

London is an atomised city where people can spend decades not knowing their neighbours, let alone understanding what the lives of those they see on public transport or cleaning their offices are like, or what brought them here.

When will the adolescent-boy tide turn, so that "vulva," "labia," "pudendum" — those parts that are commonly called the vagina; let's not even get into "uterus" — would actually enter or, rather, re-enter the discourse as words worth knowing, let alone understanding?

If she can't control her body, she is resolved to control her surroundings and her family, but even that gets dismantled, thus rendering Bev a modern tragic figure: somewhat aware but utterly remote when it comes to accepting, let alone understanding, what she's done to fuck up her life.

Sony had a good run but I wonder if a company with such a tin ear is listening to his advice, let alone understanding why it needs it.

While a remarkable feat in itself, mechanically creating a neuron is light years away from rebuilding an entire human brain, a biologically, infinitely complex structure — let alone understanding how to synthesize human consciousness and intelligence.

Vodafone is clearly advocating for greater transparency on how states collect data from telcos, and the processes involved in the data harvesting — noting the difficulties it has in obtaining  a full picture of agency data demands, let alone understanding those requests in context.

UNDERSTANDING HAMBURG When I first showed up, I had little to no useful knowledge of the city of Hamburg, let alone any understanding of why I was actually there.

But the result is a series of anthropological ghettos, leaving little sense of interaction, let alone an understanding of what lured immigrants, despite hardships.

Let alone any understanding of why I was actually there.

His masque also requires avoiding any display of basic long-term memory, let alone historical understanding.

Without incorporation of the larger evaluation report (let alone an understanding of the project itself), this data may be vulnerable to misinterpretation or misrepresentation.