How do you use the word "allow" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "allow" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "allow": Excuse me; allow me to point out three errors in the above article. You must allow for his youth.

Allow Meaning

/əˈlaʊ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo let one have as a suitable share of something.

verbTo present something as possible or reasonable.

Sentence Examples

Excuse me; allow me to point out three errors in the above article.

You must allow for his youth.

His parents won't allow him to stay out late.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

let permit grant

Antonyms:

deny prevent forbid

CEFR Practice Quiz

The school rules do not ____ students to use phones during class.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please ____ me to introduce myself and our team to you.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Anglo-Norman alouerbor. Middle English allowen English allow From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). Doublet of allaud (via allaudāre) or allocate (via allocāre). The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ālīefan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijaną (“to allow”) is unrelated.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is." — 2004 [1895], Constance, transl. Garnett, “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories, translation of original by Anton Chekhov:

"With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]" — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

"The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use." — 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:

"Mr. Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case." — 1815, Jane Austen, chapter 5, in Emma, volume 1:

"I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct[…]was highly reprehensible." — 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes:

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