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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Who would have guessed that Butch—Butch—could inspire such feelings in anyone, let alone the man who had spent 23 years waiting for his brother to leave.
  — Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
• But some council members, as well as local police officials, were hesitant to support putting a curfew in place, let alone enforcing one.
  — Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026
• The idea that his legacy should hinge on the outcome of one game — let alone a game settled on a penalty shootout — was the 1,003rd game of his career for club and country.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 19 July 2026
• Some doubt whether the model can survive here, let alone be exported to countries that are larger, less homogeneous and more suspicious of taxation.
  — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 14 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
• Not many footballers playing senior football at 16 are still relevant at 30, let alone 35 or 40.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 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
• That said, this probably won’t be even faintly legible on a home entertainment system, let alone the handheld gadgets that kids like the ones seen here prefer to watch entertainment on these days.
  — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 July 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
• Few conversations coalesce into anything meaningful, let alone cogent.
  — Nick H. Penniman, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
• But the two looks that stand out the most were dresses that Roach pulled straight from the couture shows in Paris—rarefied, one-of-a-kind gowns that few people ever get to see out in the world, let alone on an A-list celebrity.
  — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• 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
• Ranked 114th, Fery had never reached the semifinals of an ATP Tour event, let alone a major, before his brief chat with the queen following the match.
  — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026