How to Use let alone in a Sentence

let alone

1 of 2 conjunction
  • 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

2 of 2 phrase
  • Fewer young adults want to own a car, let alone learn how to drive one.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026
  • No one else has done it four times, period, let alone in a row.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Super-fresh corn on the cob hardly needs to be cooked, let alone boiled.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 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
  • Could a first-time Mike Leigh get that meeting today, let alone the cash?
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Aug. 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
  • The entire auto industry is in upheaval, let alone the rest of the world.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Even at ground level this is rarefied air, let alone at 35,000 feet.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • There aren’t that many practice reps available during the season for one backup let alone two.
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 31 Aug. 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
  • And researchers cannot yet explain or predict their actions, let alone fully control them.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This amount is rarely enough to cover extensive repairs, let alone a full replacement.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Silencing the mind — let alone keeping our thoughts to ourselves — is a lot easier said than done.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The drugs aren't approved for preventing heart attack and stroke, let alone for extending life.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 17 Aug. 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 people will never have a thousand – let alone millions – of followers.
    — Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
  • This is just a tragic situation anywhere in the world, let alone here in Hopkins.
    — Greg Norman-Diamond , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Most athletes never receive any one of those opportunities, let alone all of them.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • In my experience, students often do not respond at all, let alone in a timely manner.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • There are few artists, let alone individuals of any stripe, whose loss compels a national day of mourning.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, being on television, let alone a show with such a massive cultural footprint, was never on her radar.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 20 Aug. 2026
  • That means that trying to schedule months in advance, let alone weeks or even days, can feel particularly daunting to him.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

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