How To Use Let up In A Sentence
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The theatrical element of the show though never let up with various song and dance set pieces featuring trapeze artists, skateboarders, a tap dancer in top hat and tails, and even a dancing bagpiper.
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IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon.
The Sun
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A ripple of nervous laughter rippled through the room, and he held his goblet up in a toast.
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We have overspent . We'll have to let up our expenditures next month.
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The razzing never let up and life became a misery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing here, nothing there, lazied around work and took calls and actually found myself bored when the call volume let up a bit.
Terrarose Diary Entry
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The rain was drizzling on both men, refusing to let up.
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The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy.
Archive 2006-04-01
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We have overspent . We'll have to let up our expenditures next month.
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We can't let up on our efforts to compete with other more successful firms.
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Isabelle held the ruby necklet up to the light, looped it over her fingers.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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High Winds White Sky has its dated hippie moments: the daughter of the stars turns up; the acoustic fingerpicking don't let up; the imagery is pastoral, cross-legged, palms-up.
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Let up on Jane. She is sick.
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So, my project for the autumn is to get my score on this booklet up to something respectable.
Times, Sunday Times
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For uvular stops you should feel your tongue press against the back of your throat, for other uvulars practice the plosives until you have the position down then let up just a little so there's no actual contact.
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That means short water inlet, short water outlet up to the bundle, short condensate return to heat the tender, but longer piping for the steam to run the pump, and a full-length pipe for cold water all the way back to the injector.
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The area has become a hot spot for Liberal campaigning in the past 12 months, as was clear during the federal election, and it appears the party are not about to let up.
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Sam watched Laura run off and she stood under the awning waiting for the rain to let up.
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The theatrical element of the show though never let up with various song and dance set pieces featuring trapeze artists, skateboarders, a tap dancer in top hat and tails, and even a dancing bagpiper.
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An afternoon on a vert ramp will do that to you, especially if you don't let up.
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So, my project for the autumn is to get my score on this booklet up to something respectable.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the weather did not let up and eventually the last piece of firewood was burnt and used up.
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Let up, you painted riptyles -- let up!" cried Hurry, too hard pressed to be particular about the terms he used; "isn't it enough that I am withed like a saw-log that ye must choke too!
The Deerslayer
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When he was with her, his nerve never let up.
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Is there any let up for this thoroughbred of a record label as it maintains it's perfect 10 out of 10 release rate?
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The wind picked up and this sand was just hitting you without let up and it was a biting, piercing, stinging aggravation.
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Neil spent the entire evening moaning about his job - he just wouldn't let up.
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We shall have to fight it no one can tell how often or how long; for just as surely as we let up for ever so little a while, and Tammany, which is always waiting without, gets its foot between the door and the jamb, the old blackmail rears its head once more.
VI. In Mulberry Street
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Armor-of-God must've let up a little on his hatred of knackery and hidden powers.
Prentice Alvin
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City had begun with purpose, and barely let up their poised assurance from those emphatic first few seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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They stayed like that for what seemed like hours as the rain let up, turning into a soft drizzle.
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You're doing really well, but you can't afford to let up now.
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IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon.
The Sun
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The rain had let up and the sun was beginning to peek out from behind the leaden clouds.
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Now in Ljubljana, although unfortunately we're having a bit of a downpour, that doesn't look like it's about to let up.
Breakfast in Bed
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About one this morning, he started puking and didn't let up until early this afternoon.
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Already the warning shots have been fired regarding smaller class sizes for P1 to P3 and I can't imagine the salvo is going to let up any time soon.
An Opposition Reborn
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She swung the croquet mallet up onto her shoulder as though carrying a rifle in a passing out parade.
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City had begun with purpose, and barely let up their poised assurance from those emphatic first few seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not let up on his fight against impure or adulterated milk until the state legislature declared in 1864 that _every baby, city born or country born, no matter how humble its home, has the right to pure milk_.
Civics and Health
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The hay was belt-buckle high when rain let up, three days' sun baked stalks dry, and by midday all but the far pasture was mowed and raked into windrows.
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And that is the firm belief of all of the NATO allies, that we need to continue to strike at his instruments of repression and intensify those, rather than to let up and debouch.
Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart
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His gut geared into action instantly, and for two hours it never let up.
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You quickly swim , visit islet up, I delicious banana.
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We chose to gamble with the more direct train to Pavonia-Newport, hoping the rain would let up before we got there.
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The wind had dropped and the rain gradually let up.
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I think dogs have been in and stampeded them and not let up until they were in the water.
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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The storm never let up , continuing to swallow everything with smothering force.
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The rain let up after a few hours
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We have overspent . We'll have to let up our expenditures next month.
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Let up on Jane. She is sick.
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From the fast steep rock strewn chutes of the top section, the tight switchbacks above the road crossing to the mud rocks and roots of the bottom section, there is no let up.
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With no let up in this mean season, many hurricane - punch-drunk Floridians have opted to live in the dark, even those who have electricity.
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If your loved one is zombified, you can't take them home like that, but also recognize that there are some people who cannot be let up from medications.
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Myself included, and very regrettably, not everyone has this healthy environment to reflet upon.
Animal Planet: A Sense of Family
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If she doesn't let up, he might have no option but to race for a replacement in four years.
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Nonetheless, it still bothered him in the back of his mind, pricking at him like an annoying and persistent mosquito, which just wouldn't let up.
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She grabbed the wineskin and filled his goblet up completely.
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If she doesn't let up, he might have no option but to race for a replacement in four years.
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IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon.
The Sun
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As for chatty passenger/neighbors, my experience as professional grump and curmudgeon is never get started with such folks in the pro-flight phase because if you do, they don’t let up and they are led to believe that you actually want to talk and find them engaging — as if if they are doing you a favor by keeping you busy and informed about their life.
Travelogue: the flight. « A Bird’s Nest
