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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And he’s embroiled in an increasingly intense proxy war with the Iranian regime that Trump had been starving financially but Biden let off the hook upon taking office.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 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
• 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: 23 Nov 2024