Example Sentences

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As he prepared to announce his candidacy in 2023, he proclaimed, “The censors are permitting me to talk to Americans again!”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

City health officials are permitting spectators to fill 25% of American Family Field’s seating capacity at the start of the season.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2021

Only six teams are permitting fans in Week 1, all at diminished capacities.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020

Faced with evidence of frailty in the American project, in the institutions and norms from which they have benefitted, some are permitting themselves to imagine failure.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017

Many are permitting their forces to go to waste instead of controlling them.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia