Example Sentences

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A crowd of protesters gather around a newly-reinforced permitter fence outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2020

A security permitter around Parliament Hill meant that only a small number of staffers, parliamentarians and journalists were permitted through, and only at one checkpoint.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2014

I might say, “Thy will be done,” but I cannot applaud the permitter of self-degradation, though dignity and superior wisdom arise from its bitter and burning ashes.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

And why is the Giver of the divine the permitter of those tremendous passions, which are not without their glory, but which wreck so many human lives?

From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson