Sentence examples for let slide from inspiring English sources

"let slide" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to express the idea that something should be allowed to pass without consequence or be forgiven. For example, "I was late for the meeting, but she chose to let it slide."

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let slide

verb

To let go, allow, release, pass over without action.

  • The police officer let the ticket slide when she found her brother-in-law's car illegally parked.

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Anything else she would let slide, she tells herself.

They are also enforcing loan conditions that they might previously have let slide.

Isn't it time for the giants of news gathering to see what they've let slide?

"It's nice to win after the opportunities I let slide this year," Mickelson said.

His racing mind continually conceived grandiose projects that his immature will then let slide.

But … but … but there are certain egregious slurs that we cannot let slide.

"Those are opportunities that we can't let slide anymore," midfielder Graham Zusi said Saturday after the game.

You might be tempted to let slide your soft skills, like how to tell a useful story.

Never one to let slide a public slight, Trump soon afterward tweeted his support for Ward in the primary.

The last album was not some peak for us and there were a lot of things that we let slide".

In a maelstrom you can only batten so many hatches, but Trump's assertions that Clinton let slide were themselves telling.

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