How to use "allowed" in a sentence

That evening, she visited the dentist at the inn where he was staying, and allowed him to remove her teeth.

Madeleine was allowed to sit behind the judge's chair

When he had gone, the judge immediately allowed Champmathieu to leave the court a free man

Only parents and close relations are allowed beyond this point, so Kaz here is going to take you back."

The government is allowed to bend the rules if it wants

His ships, sealed in their glass worlds, relaxed him; he liked to spend time with them when he had a problem to work out or when he was on edge, for they made him feel serene, and that security allowed his mind to function at peak performance.

She allowed her eyes to swim out of focus.

They're allowed to go into Reno for shore leave between cruises, but for long stretches of time, they're confined to this 'ship.'"

She couldn't control herself any longer, so she allowed her own tears to come, rivers of tears, a flood

Helene was allowed visitors at the asylum, and I went to see her on Sundays

She was allowed to go into the garden during certain hours of the day, and had been given a little square where she could grow flowers

We allowed ourselves to be pushed out like children.

'We might be allowed to set a little trap.'

They told me that no one was allowed over the bridge

'Why are these things allowed? What have we done - what has Weybridge done? The morning service was over

But that was in a village where the Black Smoke was allowed to remain until it sank into the ground

You can see the quiet expectation, the officers watching, the gunners waiting with their horses, the groups of local people standing as near as they were allowed, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burnt and wounded from Weybridge

It's just that I didn't think it was a question I was not allowed to ask.'

He wrote some laws in 1870 and 1882 that allowed women to keep their money or houses after they married

The Saudi professor and women's rights leader was driven to the voting station because women were not allowed to drive in 2015

But, from June 2018, women in Saudi Arabia were allowed to drive themselves

Since 1980, in Iran, the government has not allowed women into stadiums to see all-men sports