let up

How To Use let up In A Sentence

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• IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon. The Sun
• The rain had let up and the sun was beginning to peek out from behind the leaden clouds.
• Now in Ljubljana, although unfortunately we're having a bit of a downpour, that doesn't look like it's about to let up. Breakfast in Bed
• About one this morning, he started puking and didn't let up until early this afternoon.
• Already the warning shots have been fired regarding smaller class sizes for P1 to P3 and I can't imagine the salvo is going to let up any time soon. An Opposition Reborn
• She swung the croquet mallet up onto her shoulder as though carrying a rifle in a passing out parade.
• City had begun with purpose, and barely let up their poised assurance from those emphatic first few seconds. Times, Sunday Times
• He did not let up on his fight against impure or adulterated milk until the state legislature declared in 1864 that _every baby, city born or country born, no matter how humble its home, has the right to pure milk_. Civics and Health
• The hay was belt-buckle high when rain let up, three days' sun baked stalks dry, and by midday all but the far pasture was mowed and raked into windrows.