How to use "allow" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "allow" in popular movie and book plots

  • She had been Dan's fiancée, deceiving him into giving her enough voting stock to allow her and Miles to seize control.  - The Door into Summer
  • The Martians had been content to allow humans to share their planet, but Beecher's threat to Willis has made them reconsider.  - Red Planet (novel)
  • Heathcliff, believing Lockwood to be right, examines the window and opens it, hoping to allow Catherine's spirit to enter.  - Wuthering Heights
  • Then he explains to Digory that he has been dabbling in magic, and that the rings allow travel between one world and another.  - The Magician's Nephew
  • Asking if the K-19 requires assistance, Vostrikov tells the destroyer "no" and refuses to allow the Americans anywhere near K-19.  - K-19: The Widowmaker
  • They have become absolutely necessary because they allow products to be made at a fifth the previous cost.  - R.U.R.
  • His intelligence and his work with hypnopaedia allow him to understand, and disapprove of, the methods by which society is sustained.  - Brave New World
  • Blondie decides to destroy the bridge to disperse the two armies to allow access to the cemetery.  - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • She then points the gun at Fergus but lowers her hand, saying that she cannot kill him, because Jody will not allow her to.  - The Crying Game
  • This will only happen fully if the results of a plebiscite, again conducted over the network, allow it.  - The Shockwave Rider
  • Frodo does not allow the hobbits to kill Saruman, but Gríma turns on Saruman and kills him in front of Bag End (Frodo's hobbit-hole).  - The Lord of the Rings
  • Although the young newspaperman hero and his sweetheart guess the answer to the story, they allow the diagnosis "scared to death" to stand.  - Scared to Death
  • They allow him, when he wills it, to command the obedience of those who hear and comprehend his words.  - Preacher (comics)
  • Such tools allow desired card shapes to be cut out very precisely, and repeated perfectly identically.  - Plotter
  • Animal Mother decides to allow a mercy killing only if Joker performs it.  - Full Metal Jacket
  • dr Levy explains later to Liz that Elliott wanted to be a woman, but his male side would not allow him to go through with the operation.  - Dressed to Kill (1980 film)

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