allow
verb (used with object)
to give permission to or for; permit.
had allowed
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past perfectof allow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He said the donation from Tunnock had allowed them to get the lifeboat "a lot quicker than was anticipated".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The problem was that they had allowed 24 — the 55 combined first-half points marked the seventh most of the Super Bowl era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The lull in violence that began in June had allowed hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return home.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
What mattered was less that the meal satisfied any established definition of breakfast than that, sometime after waking, you had allowed yourself to be fed.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
There had been one possibility that had allowed me some hope: that I might become a shaman priestess.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
