How to Use let (someone) off the hook in a Sentence

let (someone) off the hook

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• Poll workers in the Peach State won’t be let off the hook anytime soon.
  — al, 11 Nov. 2020
• The Browns owners, too, are let off the hook with this settlement.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• These jails are under the government’s control, and they shouldn’t be let off the hook for that.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
• Amazon cannot continue to be let off the hook for putting hard working people’s lives at risk.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 13 Dec. 2021
• Neither defense was great, but they were let off the hook by the ineptitude of both offenses.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• To be clear, John Walker is essentially a cop who murdered a guy and got let off the hook.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
• Considering the circumstances, many assumed the father would be let off the hook.
  — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• There will be time to unravel all of that — and nobody responsible for this catastrophe should be let off the hook.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• Colts coach Shane Steichen was let off the hook for having his kicker try a 60-yard field goal that had no chance.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
• Mayorkas was ultimately let off the hook when the Senate declined to hold a trial.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Sep. 2024
• The Rapids’ strong energy started early, with FC Dallas let off the hook in the seventh minute.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2022
• In response, his lawyer, Isabelle Kirshner, detailed the terms of his former plea deal and how Hadden was let off the hook.
  — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• Tortorella, though, can’t be let off the hook for that team’s dramatic collapse, which included an eight-game losing streak and a string of unfortunate headlines.
  — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• The same system that used its prosecutorial discretion to charge him with dozens of felonies when his opponents were let off the hook for similar offenses.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024
• The mayor and the police superintendent have tried to shift blame for the shootings to the courts and the state’s attorney, alleging that would-be shooters are being let off the hook.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2021
• Instead, the industry is getting let off the hook for up to 200 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 1 July 2020
• For the first time, the perpetrators of a serious effort to subvert democracy in Brazil have been tried and convicted, rather than given amnesty and let off the hook.
  — Rafael R. Ioris, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
• The real issue is whether the whole group of people that the DA decided to let off the hook — a group that includes repeat offenders — would likely re-offend.
  — Charles "cully" Stimson/the Heritage Foundation, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
• Antonio Sanchez scuffs his shot, before blazing over a similar opportunity two minutes later, as Ancelotti’s side were let off the hook.
  — Thom Harris, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
• Liberal justices furiously hit back at the idea that Trump could be let off the hook for allegedly trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and stay in power.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2024
• Kim was effectively let off the hook for the defamation claim last week when the final version of jury instructions — read to jurors on Thursday — failed to spell out how Kim allegedly defamed White.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Accusations that Black people will wait in line for sneakers or fast food but not to exercise political power gets parroted over and over, while the majority white electorate gets let off the hook for commandeering the ship.
  — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• The frequency and uniformity with which cops are let off the hook for hurting or killing people of color is why anti-police brutality protests have erupted in every major American city in response to Floyd’s death.
  — Brianna Provenzano, refinery29.com, 3 June 2020