allows
- present tense form of allow (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Ramirez, an avid surfer, makes a point to visit those trucks whenever his schedule allows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Friday's recommendations wrapped a two-day meeting in which the advisory committee considered whether to greenlight adding seven total peptides to the US compounding list, which allows facilities to create custom drugs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Anyone can say on their website 'this is recyclable where your council allows'. But if no council allows it, then it doesn't mean anything," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
He acknowledges the technical hurdles and the profound ethical concerns and allows that his vision may never fully arrive, yet insists it would be wrong not to try.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
When a strand of DNA is used to build the RNA message, it is the pairing of bases between DNA and RNA that allows a gene to generate its RNA copy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
