Using "let alone" in a sentence

The idea of spending five minutes outside dashing distance of the toilet was dangerous, let alone five days.
Source: BBC

So, what’s another five or six months for a Mac that turned four years old last month? Well, the fact that any company (let alone Apple) sells a four-year-ago computer at its original price is ridiculous.
Source: Puget Sound Business Journal The Business Journals

"Think of anyone you worked with closely for 25 years, let alone a project that worked out super well and became something grand," a friend of the pair said.
Source: Business Insider

Can the long-delayed second “Avatar” make enough money to justify its production and marketing costs, let alone the budgets of “Avatars 3, 4 and 5,” which the Walt Disney Co.
Source: Los Angeles Times

If only we as the public could have multiple mature, focused discussions, let alone one.
Source: Yahoo Sports

It doesn’t look like any monitor I’ve ever used, let alone seen.
Source: Android Authority

Maynard James Keenan is one of the most celebrated musicians in popular music, let alone in the world of metal.
Source: Far Out Magazine

They haven't identified a suspect, let alone a motive.
Source: CNN One Thing Podcast on CNN Audio CNN

But it was Ben Stokes' men who felt at home against a Pakistan set-up that, at present, barely seem able to comprehend England's philosophy, let alone replicate it.
Source: ESPNcricinfo

These use cases push the boundaries for what is possible even now, let alone once the metaverse or metaverses fully takes shape.
Source: The Defiant DeFi News

I cannot write, let alone write and then record, a Britney Spears thing fast enough to keep up with the torrent of Britney Spears news.
Source: The Ringer

Queer and straight viewers alike may experience Fire Island on Hulu with a mix of delight and disorientation; they haven’t worked the muscles of watching a gay will-they-won’t-they story, let alone one populated by unabashedly out characters.
Source: Boing Boing

Similar to Burns, I didn’t think I could make bread from scratch by myself — let alone create a delicious dessert out of it.
Source: Her Campus

The soccer manager knows why she’s there, but all of her promise and acclaim and proven skills in the football world isn’t going to mean a thing to a lot of skeptical soccer fans, let alone other soccer players who maybe wanted her spot.
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Gamers are finding it difficult to find a single opponent let alone play it three times.
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fm was still around when I first started writing this story, let alone that it had new communities flourishing around its data.
Source: The Verge

Never did he imagine he'd win another race, let alone get the mount on an undefeated 2-year-old who might just be good enough to be pointed toward the GI Kentucky Derby.
Source: Thoroughbred Daily News

Indeed, not all motocross circuits—let alone trails—will have the infrastructure to charge your bike should you run out of juice, so you’ll need to plan your rides with just a tad more detail.
Source: RideApart

Frank, honest, and willing to admit past mistakes, it's rare to find any CEO as forthcoming, let alone one in the automotive realm.
Source: MotorTrend

Daring to make a cameo in a Hollywood movie is a dangerous game for any musician, let alone a hip hop artist.
Source: Far Out Magazine

Instead, New York’s war chest of assets was left relatively empty, and the resulting roster was not enough to overcome Paul George and the Indana Pacers in the 2013 Eastern Conference semifinals (let alone Miami’s LeBron-Wade-Bosh juggernaut).
Source: FiveThirtyEight

We don't typically expect developers to make significant graphical advancements to already-released games, let alone those five years into their lifetime.
Source: PC Gamer

  Normally, we'd just list our favorites in alphabetical order, but given the number of minivans currently on sale (either four or five, depending on how you count them) and the fact that there's barely room in the market for good minivans, let alone mediocre ones, we're simply listing all of them along with their respective pros and cons.
Source: Autoblog

Even by 2012, when I spent a big chunk of one morning at ProWein tasting through the wines in the Georgian Wine booth, few Americans had ever heard of Georgian wine, let alone tasted it.
Source: Vinography

As a result, she concluded that, "Among teachers/educators today, the goal of schooling is not considered to be instructional, let alone intellectual, but political.
Source: Winston-Salem Journal

The human mind can barely comprehend such a quantity, let alone such a quantity of… suns.
Source: CNET

That's a reasonable price for even one of these games, let alone the 18 games included in this bundle.
Source: Borderlands, XCOM, Civ for $16 Rock Paper Shotgun

This marks a significant departure from the book, in which Macy’s death took place while she and Lucy were still in high school, and Stephen was the only other person at Baird who ever knew her—let alone was affected by her death.
Source: 'Tell Me Lies' Book vs. TV Show ELLE

Excuse me? Where in this world might one turn for some measure of unconditional positive regard when, as is too often the case, it doesn’t come from Homo sapiens? And why does relying on pets for companionship and interpersonal positivity constitute settling for less, let alone serve as a warning sign of underlying psychological dysfunction? Over one hundred million of us own dogs or cats, and millions more have birds, fish, small mammals and horses.
Source: Shepherd Express

But bad weather limited the tourney to one day, and many entrants struggled to catch any fish, let alone a basket of lunkers that might bring them a large cash prize.
Source: NPR

The S20 Ultra doesn't even work with a stylus, let alone having room for one in the body.
Source: Tom's Guide

Almost no one looks glamorous, let alone devastatingly so.
Source: The New York Times

But one thing is for certain about the clandestine biological laboratory codenamed Building 21: only the strongest Operators may survive, let alone access one of the deadliest areas of DMZ.
Source: Call of Duty

I'm guessing you'd have to spend more than $6,000 on a one-box CD player to equal, let alone better it.
Source: Business Insider

5): The Dolphins will feast on a leaky Los Angeles Chargers offensive line, let alone attack them through the air with their potent passing game.
Source: Pro Football Focus

To think that we would allow something like that to happen, let alone participate in it, is disappointing.
Source: CBS Sports

It is inordinately difficult to win on the PGA Tour, let alone to make it a habit, but that’s the space he stepped into this past season.
Source: The Athletic

Live Nation responded in a statement posted to its website, saying it “takes its responsibilities under the antitrust laws seriously” and “does not engage in behaviors that could justify antitrust litigation, let alone orders that would require it to alter fundamental business practices.
Source: CNN

Not only did EPA register this chemical with known hazards to pollinators, it also failed to consider, let alone mitigate, any potential impacts the chemical could cause to endangered species.
Source: NDTV

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things that Seem Impossible TodayBy Jane McGonigal From the back cover: “How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures.
Source: By Antonia Violante Behavioral Scientist

Writing is often an intense, insular process, and it can be vulnerable to share a draft with a beta reader, agent, or editor—let alone share every step of the process with another creative.
Source: Gizmodo

In my observation, Somalia has no functioning state and is no longer a state capable of protecting itself from Al-Shabaab, let alone protecting its people.
Source: The Conversation Indonesia

Never thought I would ever see one of these dinosaurs, let alone be able to actually hold one.
Source: WDAF FOX4 Kansas City

She’s thinking of people with limited mobility, who can’t easily leave their apartments, let alone travel cross-country.
Source: Document Journal

Black Americans were much less likely than their white counterparts to have heard of cryptocurrencies in the early days, let alone to have invested in them.
Source: The Atlantic

Nearly all schools have computer-based classes, but many don’t offer even foundational classes on programming, let alone advanced computing.
Source: Dayton Daily News

Most people can lose a few pounds by restricting calories for a short while, but few can keep the weight off — let alone keep losing weight — for more than a few months.
Source: Harvard Gazette

There are many who don't understand the level of difficulty required to pull off such a feat (reversing field is what it's called, and it's insanely difficult even with weeks of practice, let alone none at all), and so what Peters did on Sunday probably won't truly be absorbed by the masses.
Source: DallasCowboys.com

By the time we’d lost 500 000 Americans, let alone millions around the world … was it really a foregone conclusion that this wasn’t a life-ending event?” Scorsese also wanted the backstory of a delightful cameo by David Lynch playing John Ford, an inspiration to Sam Fabelman.
Source: Deadline

Executives at PlayStation were not sure how to market it in Japan, let alone to the newborn weebs of North America and beyond, who were still cutting their teeth on Final Fantasy and Dragon Ball.
Source: Inverse

Hall also denied that “he threw any objects at her, let alone a pair of jeans.
Source: Los Angeles Times

Few details, however, are available of the avionics and overall mission architecture that will be required to conduct counter-air missions, let alone more straightforward functions.
Source: The War Zone

This is the first handheld emulation device I’ve used that can run the N64/Dreamcast’s classic shoot ‘em up, Bangai-O, with its frenzy of processor-hungry action, without smoke coming out of the sides, let alone as smooth as butter.
Source: Kotaku

What makes the situation worse is that very few people are aware of this situation, let alone of the harmful potential of these masks.
Source: Yanko Design

Under the judge’s interpretation of the Bruen decision, because colonial law – written before a time when women could vote, let alone be protected in law from violent spouses – didn’t restrict domestic abusers’ gun rights, then it simply isn’t constitutional to do so now.
Source: The Conversation Indonesia

“K-pop and Broadway have both been my passion for a long time; K-pop has been like comfort food for me, and Broadway was my seemingly unattainable dream, given there haven’t been many Asian composers, let alone Asian female composers that I can see and dream to be like,” she said in an email.
Source: The Associated Press en Español

"In the Pacific it is rare for internationally competitive athletes to live and train in their home country on a permanent basis, let alone an entire national squad.
Source: ABC News

You're not trying to pick a fight and have no interest in arguing with anyone, let alone your love partner.
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Without any true standout qualities, it's going to be difficult for SHIB to maintain its existing market value, let alone add more than 10,800,000% in a year.
Source: The Motley Fool

Aside from his apparent distaste for it, he presents no actual reason a mentally competent adult should not have the right to end her own life, let alone a person who is living with intractable suffering.
Source: Star Tribune

One female chief executive tweeted back “a woman can’t show up in a t-shirt (even for the internal team stuff)” — let alone meetings with funders.
Source: Los Angeles Times

(SpaceX) Orbital-class versions of Starship and Super Heavy have never flown, let alone demonstrated successful recovery or reuse, so SpaceX has to operate under the assumption that every orbital test flight will consume 39 Raptors.
Source: TESLARATI

Based in Irvine, California, Rivian assembles its EV trucks, for now, out of Mitsubishi’s old Normal, Illinois plant, which has a capacity of only 150,000 per year—not nearly enough to compete with Tesla, let alone the likes of the Ford F-150 Lightning or the GMC Hummer and Chevrolet Silverado EV.
Source: Autoweek

“I couldn’t even walk the length of my train, let alone drive it,” she says.
Source: The Times

And while it's one thing to say they're less complex—for instance, like electric cars, they don't need multiple gears because they already deliver so much torque, let alone exhaust, etc.
Source: Gear Patrol

THe federation would have to be confident that picking the best squad regardless of how it reflects on his previous selections — let alone a Best XI — is going to happen under a given coach.
Source: NBC Sports

military forces have been engaged in unauthorized hostilities in many more countries than the Pentagon has disclosed to Congress, let alone the public, according to a major new report released late last week by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice.
Source: Responsible Statecraft

LinkedIn post that inspired this article, accessed on November 27 but since deletedThe above post beautifully illustrated the complete lack of understanding, let alone critical thinking, surrounding this particular line of FUD.
Source: Bitcoin Magazine

And had he but had reasonable nerves, let alone good ones, then I believe that he would surely have become world champion.
Source: ChessBase

5 Gig-E, let alone 10, so we couldn't really put it through the paces.
Source: Hot Hardware

Many families can’t process the loss, let alone imagine their baby’s body being cut open.
Source: Undark Magazine

  Except it’s unclear if Smith’s “Slap” will damage the film itself, let alone his chances for another Best Actor nomination.
Source: OutKick

  The challenge would be keeping the same sheet of paper in good condition after it’s been reprinted and handled 10 times — let alone 50 or 100.
Source: Marketplace

“We never believed it would even make it on the album, let alone be a hit for all time in ‘The Library of Congress.
Source: PBS NewsHour

It has enough power to run even a portable fridge for about three days, let alone charge phones and laptops multiple times over.
Source: Yanko Design

However, off-target mutations in the mitochondrial genomes have been observed and none of these animals have shown high mtDNA editing levels (heteroplasmy, let alone homoplasmy), raising some concerns about the specificity and efficacy of DdCBEs for in vivo use.
Source: Nature.com

For WatchOS9 not to support a cycling cadence sensor, which is of the most basic sensors, let alone power meters, that’s a hard sell to triathletes.
Source: DC Rainmaker

Although these training programs do not themselves entail operations, let alone combat, they can serve as a springboard for combat beyond what Congress has authorized.
Source: Lawfare

Words matterThe jargon of global health and development can be off-putting for writers, let alone readers.
Source: Quartz

“We had a plan all week and then we were able to execute and put hands in his face, get in front of his eyes and make it hard for him to see, let alone throw and just make it really hard on him.
Source: Buffalo News

It wasn’t until Tuesday night’s game against Illinois that Texas left its own state or played anything like a neutral-court game, let alone a true road contest.
Source: The Athletic

  Green writes in his review that "those who aren't hard-core fans of the genre or don't understand Korean — let alone those who saw the radically different and far superior Off-Broadway version in 2017 — will have a harder time enjoying this one.
Source: The Korea JoongAng Daily

Noah characterized that night as one of the best and worst nights of Smith's life, let alone his career.
Source: NPR

There is no time to eat a lavish meal, let alone cook it.
Source: NDTV Food

It is ten times harder to track down customers weeks or months later and reach them, let alone actually capture an enthusiastic, contagiously positive testimonial in comparison to doing so during a customer's current experience with your company.
Source: Entrepreneur

“The specific years for accreditation review were 2020 and 2021, which presented challenges none of us had ever contemplated, let alone faced.
Source: Parkersburg News

After back-to-back games against major-college opponents in which he struggled simply to get shots let alone make them (he went 2-of-6 combined versus Clemson and MSU), he came up huge against the Illini.
Source: 247Sports

’ I didn’t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it,” he said.
Source: Decider

New Type Ace Pilot: They can't figure out what to do with her so instead of ending it where she was happily married with a beautiful wife(one of marvel's few married couples let alone queer couples WITH a trans person) you separate them and shove the trans character into obscurity and forget angela.
Source: Bleeding Cool News

Though it sounds hopeful, Witous isn’t counting his chickens before they hatch because of the caveat relating to having “enough participation,” as the reality is there just aren’t that many dwarves in the world, let alone ones that do CrossFit, said Witous, who has placed third in the Short Stature division for two years in a row.
Source: Morning Chalk Up

1 teams in non-conference, let alone beat them," Oats said.
Source: CBS Sports

Even one of those traumas is a lot to handle, let alone multiple.
Source: HuffPost

Nonprofits and community organizations, however, may have less frequent opportunities to work with lawyers, let alone access to high-quality advisors.
Source: Hawaii Business Magazine

I don't expose my devices to harsh conditions, let alone need a watch housing made of titanium that can take a beating.
Source: ZDNet

They’re projected to be the most valuable pair in the league, considering how highly each individual is rated let alone the efforts they have together.
Source: The Athletic

Only about 2 million Germans subscribe to Telegram channels, Vaughn added, making it “unlikely Telegram channels could play any noticeable role in Germany’s information landscape, let alone be used as a tool for disinformation of any relevance.
Source: The Washington Post

“No one takes that ESG stuff seriously,” Slobodian says, “let alone actual investors.
Source: Mother Jones

The salespeople there in Ohio decided to hit my 70-year-old mom, who doesn’t know much about cars, let alone EVs, with a bullshit maintenance plan upsell.
Source: Electrek.co

3 overs, more than he has in any first-class match, let alone innings.
Source: The Telegraph

Monday's motion also stated: "Favre, unlike [MDHS director John] Davis and [Mississippi Community Education Center founder Nancy] New and the other public officials, in fact did not know that any funds he received were TANF funds or were subject to a legal use restriction, had no responsibility or ability to audit or monitor, let alone control, the use of MDHS or MCEC funds, and did nothing wrong in connection with those funds.
Source: ESPN

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