How to use "allow" in a sentence

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Please allow me to marry her!'

'Well, we're not going to allow you to stay here on your own

I won't allow you to spend another day here.'

But she wasn't going to allow such a thing to happen to her

She couldn't allow herself to hope.

A dozen times, she passed chinks in the wall, and Death glared out at her from every one of those apertures, screamed and cursed and raged at her, but none of the holes was large enough to allow him through

It really is stupid - I go on the beach in my bathing dress, but now father won't allow Lawrence into the house

I will not allow it." It sounded as though the lady wanted to tell Mrs Protheroe something, and he didn't want her to

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'

The first country in Europe to allow women to vote was Finland, which was then part of Russia