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let on

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  1. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
    unwrap the evidence in the murder case
    he broke the news to her
    The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
    bring out the truth
    The actress won't reveal how old she is
    The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold

How To Use let on In A Sentence

  • GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
  • For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present. Pamela
  • It was laying on its front and looked as if its head had been resting in its folded arms before rising up enough to let one of its unblinking eyes stare at Kyri through strands of long red hair.
  • You may put your African violet on a self-watering system to ensure a constant, optimum level of moisture.
  • Marcy sat down hard on the straw pallet on which she had been sleeping and ran her hands through her hair.
  • There are two part-timers in the shop; the tearoom is let on a franchise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kathy and I used to go to the ballet on Super Bowl Sunday, as a kind of protest against the month of nonending hype. Not Caring XLII
  • He wore a copper bracelet on his wrist.
  • I take ballet, jazz, and Pointe, which is ballet on toe shoes.
  • Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
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