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
• That is a high bar to set for a single player, let alone a trio.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• There are very few castles out west, let alone available for sale.
  — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 27 May 2024
• There's no reason to go with the worm, let alone a backward one.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• Where is the empathy, where are your hearts, let alone your eyes?
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• An e-mail like this should not even be opened, let alone allowed to go on for this long.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Ten years is a long time to do any kind of creative project or job, let alone a podcast.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• 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
• But large moves aren’t easy to pull off at any time, let alone in the middle of the season.
  — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• How many of these services would survive, let alone turn a profit?
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Wearing them for an hour is miserable, let alone a whole day.
  — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 8 Feb. 2026
• Much of what drives us is hidden from ourselves, let alone others.
  — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
• 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

let alone

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• Fewer young adults want to own a car, let alone learn how to drive one.
  — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026
• Good luck swinging a leg over the bike, let alone flat-footing it on both sides.
  — New Atlas, 27 July 2026
• There are no miracles, no fluke teams that make the semifinals, let alone win it all.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 7 July 2026
• How to choose which candidates to look at, let alone interview?
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• The use of Irish oak, let alone 1,000-year-old oak, makes the whiskey stand out.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2026
• Even at ground level this is rarefied air, let alone at 35,000 feet.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 July 2026
• 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
• That’s an enormous sales figure for any current release, let alone a project that arrived more than a decade ago.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
• At the time, Hopkins had no idea what the disease was, let alone that he would be diagnosed one day.
  — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
• But so far, no SpaceX craft has made it into the Moon’s orbit, let alone land on it.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
• Silencing the mind — let alone keeping our thoughts to ourselves — is a lot easier said than done.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
• Residents didn’t feel safe walking their dogs down the street, let alone taking their kids to the neighborhood park.
  — Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 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
• Most athletes never receive any one of those opportunities, let alone all of them.
  — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• No other arms manufacturer in Ukraine, let alone a start-up, has had nearly the same success.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
• All the more so for the fact that there isn’t a settlement or a hamlet, let alone a village called Shippea Hill at all.
  — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
• When multiple providers bill separately for the same episode of care, the total amount owed can be difficult to track, let alone pay all at once.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 30 July 2026
• The vast majority do not want politics in sports at all, let alone 24/7, yet this league keeps doubling down.
  — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• But family alone can’t seem to do much to mitigate, let alone cure, mental illness or the impact of childhood trauma.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
• No one is willing to give up dinner at their favourite restaurant, let alone a stay at an iconic hotel, just to have one more coat or one more sweater hanging in their wardrobe.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• The amount of time that passed has only compounded the challenges of finding — let alone identifying — the victims.
  — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
• That’s an uncomfortably thin margin for absorbing a slow quarter, let alone a genuine downturn.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
• Rarely have the donors or recipients of narco funds been prosecuted, let alone convicted.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
• That sentence does not even look right on paper, let alone warrant a confusing 60-minute production that builds to a drag queen being shot.
  — Hannah Brueske, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2026
• Yet travel books—and books about sports, for that matter—are inevitably time capsules and Foer’s feels like one somewhat out of step with his own time, let alone ours.
  — Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
• The first day used to be so chaotic and humorous in the old days, with players not knowing how to put on helmets let alone figure out shoulder pads and struggling in line drills.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
• But whether or not paying down that debt is feasible to do — let alone the most financially responsible move to make — is a whole other question.
  — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 20 July 2026
• Having people read your brand guidelines might help, but there is little chance everyone will go through your 50-page deck, let alone remember and follow it.
  — Andrey Insarov, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026