How to Use let on in a Sentence

let on

verb
  • But Eli has a desire for more than he’s let on, though.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But Wylie rarely let on to others about the tension in his home life.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But is there more to Ruby’s past than Davies is letting on just yet?
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 23 June 2024
  • People around Roosevelt were in great fear of his dying, yet no one let on.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the possibility that finances in the league are tighter than is being let on is one of them.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The Home Town star has shared clips of her singing in the past, but there's more to her passion for music than she's previously let on.
    Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The synopsis for episode 3 doesn't let on that the new women join in week 3, but the new women can't come too late in the game and still have a real chance with Matt.
    Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The defendant told him there was more to their relationship than Koehler had let on.
    Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • So, uh yeah, that bad habit is a much larger problem than Exorcist Priest let on.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021
  • Knowles, in his first game with the MLS first team, didn’t let on to any sort of specialized celebration for him in the locker room postgame.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But Marvel Studios has yet to let on whether there even is a grand design to tie all of these strands together.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 May 2022
  • And the budget crunch is even more severe than the administration has let on.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 5 Mar. 2022
  • But Leland doesn’t let on that the infant may no longer be inherently bad.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 July 2024
  • And the example is more complicated than his rhetoric lets on.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • That's when Tommy realized just how big his father was and, yet, his dad never let on.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But Holmes, who started her page as a comedy account, is more serious about her craft than the bags let on.
    Tiana Randall, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2022
  • If there’s much nuance or ambivalence to Barbe-Nicole’s feelings about her own station, the script barely lets on.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Monica doesn’t let on and the ruse allows the estranged pair to slowly reconnect.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The regime’s internal records are also more ambiguous than Baram lets on.
    Samuel Helfont, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2016
  • As Sweeney says, this sort of does demonstrate the extreme power of their reach, and yet the counter-argument is, their store, their decision what to let on or kick off.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • But his left guard let on Thursday that the injury might be more serious than Rivers is revealing.
    Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The modern style of these three interlocking wooden rings looks much more expensive than the price tag lets on.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2023
  • There might be nuances that the previous owner didn’t let on, or the market might be changing quickly.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • An in-depth review showed the A15 Bionic is even more formidable than Apple let on.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But the Earn program, the New York attorney general alleges, was far more risky than the marketing let on.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Central Intelligence was both very good and better than the trailers let on.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • However, the name doesn't let on that the hair used in the artifact is from a very famous head: President Abraham Lincoln.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Her mother never let on to family whether there were any problems.
    Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Rather than cutting some out of the sport as a sanctioning body, Penske and IndyCar could let on-track results and economics do it for them.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2021
  • What exactly Spears will say, though, Ingham didn’t let on.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 23 June 2021

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