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
• Scott Kushner: While this team is built for the future, they shouldn’t be let off the hook for the present.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The Rapids’ strong energy started early, with FC Dallas let off the hook in the seventh minute.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Possible outcomes of the case range from Mr. Musk being let off the hook to having to close the deal or paying a breakup fee of $1 billion.
  — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 14 July 2022
• Amazon cannot continue to be let off the hook for putting hard working people’s lives at risk.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 13 Dec. 2021
• With those three words, you are blissfully let off the hook on that arduous but tedious task.
  — Dori Jamison, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Neither defense was great, but they were let off the hook by the ineptitude of both offenses.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lake echoed those phony claims in a subsequent podcast interview with Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump strategist, accused swindler (let off the hook by a presidential pardon) and super-spreader of political misinformation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024