How to Use let alone in a Sentence

let alone

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  • I don't have enough money for a new car, let alone a luxury sedan.
  • But to like it, let alone love it?
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Not a trace of clouds, let alone snow.
    — Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That can change in a five-minute spell of a game, let alone with a result.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That is not a recipe for success at any time of year, let alone this one.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Nobody thought the Suns would be good, let alone this good.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Pars were difficult to come by, let alone birdies.
    — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • There would barely be room for work, let alone a social life.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Richie has never left the country, let alone flown in a plane.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Hurley hadn’t yet won a title, let alone two.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The child has never been near a fish, let alone tasted one.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • There's no reason to go with the worm, let alone a backward one.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • Where is the empathy, where are your hearts, let alone your eyes?
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • There aren’t many people who get to 700, let alone one.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Shouldn't even be that hard to sharpen the blasted thing, let alone twist it.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Shouldn’t even be that hard to sharpen the blasted thing, let alone twist it.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Elite pass rushers rarely end up on the trade market, let alone as a free agent.
    — Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Only one team can win a game, let alone a championship.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That is a lot for anyone, let alone someone still in middle school.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Wearing them for an hour is miserable, let alone a whole day.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 8 Feb. 2026
  • This was his first chance to play for a team with a winning record, let alone a playoff team.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • My grandma seldom drank water, let alone baked with it.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2025
  • There's no running it off in this household, let alone walking.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 10 June 2026
  • Lucci never planned to tell anyone about the signs, let alone write about them.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • And what in a woman’s life today is simple, let alone light and breezy?
    — CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And nobody knows what the price of oil will be tomorrow, let alone next year.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But outside zone takes a big time investment to run at all, let alone run well.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Unattended deaths in homes don't get talked about often, let alone shown on video.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • He was never charged with anything, let alone assault.
    — Seth Stern, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Teams don’t come back from awful preseasons like this one, let alone in a cost-cap era.
    — The Athletic, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

let alone

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  • But Claus also did not see anything on the field, at full speed, to warrant a card at all, let alone a red.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • All the gold is gone, and there’s barely enough to pay her soldiers, let alone throw a lavish coronation.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • The market pays for preparation, and a business can grow for years and still not be ready to be sold, let alone be sold well.
    — Peter Goldstein, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Silencing the mind — let alone keeping our thoughts to ourselves — is a lot easier said than done.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • Ten years ago, few people in the United Kingdom had even heard of padel, let alone taken it up.
    — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
  • Miami is not an easy or affordable place to reopen a bar, let alone an LGBTQ+ one.
    — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • To be sized for a bra can be an anxiety-inducing experience for anyone, let alone a trans adult unwilling to solicit a salesperson’s help.
    — Nicky Josephine, Vogue, 29 June 2026
  • The rotation has been unable to fill his absence, preventing the Mets from putting together series wins, let alone a longer winning streak, to get back into contention.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • Only easy patients got good care, because time-consuming workups or expensive tests—let alone innovation—were prohibitive.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The way Republican candidates for the office are being shot down even before the primary, let alone the election, the need for a viable candidate is urgent.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 July 2026
  • In other words, without a sufficient number of GPUs, big AI models cannot operate, let alone improve.
    — Juan Pablo Perez, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In 2021, the engines, gearboxes, suspension, ground clearance, and tyres would have seen pretty much any racetrack exercise, let alone a wet one, quickly end in tears and ambulances.
    — New Atlas, 6 July 2026
  • With just four months to go until Election Day, the House is having trouble with the basics of legislating – let alone moving the typical election-year messaging bills meant to drive up voter turnout.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • With ultra-slim Republican margins in the House and Senate, lawmakers are having a tough time completing the basics of legislating, let alone passing any controversial bills.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • The military declared McKinney dead in March 1946, though no crash site had been identified, let alone any remains of the man from Providence, Rhode Island.
    — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • With ultra-slim Republican margins in the House and Senate, Congress is having a tough time doing just the basics of legislating, let alone passing controversial legislation.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Edward, who has spent his lifelong federal career at a military base in New York, has little interest in driving to Niagara Falls for its days-long fireworks display, let alone traveling to New York City for its sprawling maritime celebration.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

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