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Example sentences for "but perhaps"

  • I hated you when you said he was like an angel and I laughed at you but--but perhaps he is.

  • I believe Dickon knows some Magic, but perhaps he doesn't know he knows it.

  • To do nothing whatever is a depressing thing at all times, but perhaps it is more especially so when one is a big, healthy boy twelve years old.

  • But perhaps it only means that, if you do it, you'll be happy after you're dead.

  • But perhaps--" and he stopped a moment again because new thoughts rushed through his mind.

  • But perhaps I had no right to your forbearance.

  • But perhaps it wasn't the best time for pleasing her just in that way.

  • And there's Miss Roper--one never ought to speak free about a lady, but perhaps she's in love too.

  • If I have ever said anything to deceive you, I beg your pardon with all my heart;--but perhaps it will be better to let the subject remain till we shall meet again in London.

  • But perhaps, after all, no more than those two initials were known in Burton Crescent.

  • That, to be sure, the duties of the two were hardly compatible; but perhaps he might effect an exchange.

  • One boy asked him whether he could play cricket.

  • In due course they were moved up, having learned little but a cheerful effrontery in the distortion of truth, which was possibly of greater service to them in after life than an ability to read Latin at sight.

  • All right, I'll give you the head," cried Lawson.

  • But perhaps he had not given God enough time.

  • I'm sorry, but perhaps you'll excuse me, considerin' all that had happened.

  • But perhaps he may know some one who will buy it at some price or other.

  • But perhaps Nelson's right, after all, Lulie," she said.

  • But perhaps it is a mere French epigram, such as the winds often generate there, and put down for fact.

  • One hopes they repented;--but perhaps it was only Pitt and Duke Ferdinand that did so, instead!

  • But perhaps I shall be in your way,' she continued, hastily.

  • Not one man, but perhaps a hundred, could be raised into a new existence by what in my hands is mere superfluity of means.

  • But perhaps he would be at Eastbourne in the morning, and in that case she must wait many hours.

  • It might be that Thyrza had earned it, but perhaps it was given to her by an enemy--under this name Lydia had come to think of Egremont.

  • But perhaps I shall find you again some day.

  • It seemed likely that he might still found the park which was to bear his name; but perhaps it would only be done in consequence of directions in his will.

  • But perhaps he would be doing far better if he never allowed the child to hear a fairy-tale or a line of poetry.

  • But perhaps he doesn't care about that kind of thing.

  • I've got a great many things to thank God for, but perhaps most of all that I can find something to admire, to wonder at, to set my fancy going, and to wind up my enthusiasm pretty much everywhere.

  • But perhaps there is some way of reconciling them, as there is of making the seven days of creation harmonize with modern geology.

  • But perhaps he did not say anything very memorable; to do that you must have something positive in your listener; and I was the mere response, the hollow echo, that youth must be in like circumstances.

  • He was so altogether simple that it seems as if it would be easy to do so; but perhaps a spirit from the other world would be simple too, and yet would no more stand at parle, or consent to be sketched, than Hawthorne.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but perhaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always remember; but although; but because; but ere; but especially; but found; but instead; but neither; but nevertheless; but not; but perhaps; but she did not; but still; but suddenly; but they were all; but this; but your; butt joint; butter rolled; butter sauce; butter them; buttered pudding; buttonhole stitch; early death; say unto; sleep well