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Example sentences for "conceivably"

Lexicographically close words:
conceiue; conceiued; conceiuing; conceivability; conceivable; conceive; conceived; conceives; conceiveth; conceiving
  1. If this pass muster as an intelligible account of how an experience originally pure can enter into one consciousness, the next question is as to how it might conceivably enter into two.

  2. The one duty can conceivably be as definite as or more definite than the other.

  3. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man.

  4. And now having acquainted you with the salience of the situation, I will allow you a period for reflection undisturbed by pleasantries or philosophic observations from myself which might conceivably divert the currents of your minds.

  5. It is intimated that some of us might conceivably be annoyed by requests to substitute in part other collateral or somewhat reduce loans secured by Massachusetts Traction stock.

  6. The vendetta might conceivably date back to the man's first marriage, and the ring be taken for some such reason.

  7. I am sure no one could conceivably have a more inspiring task than mine has been, nor have I any idea of giving it up as yet.

  8. Could there conceivably be but one answer to that question?

  9. And her answer was the more valuable that it came without nervous effusion--quite as if she understood what he might conceivably have believed.

  10. One of the things he conceivably should gain on Thursday at Lancaster Gate would be a further view of that propriety.

  11. We might conceivably discount the Lord Marischal, and Dr.

  12. Upheaval might conceivably be produced by an ascent of the internal magma, and the consequent expansion of the overlying crust by heat; while depression might follow any subsidence of the magma, or its displacement to another district.

  13. She was at the spot a Mekinese commander would most devoutly wish, because it was equidistant from all his ships, and all their missiles should arrive at the same instant when their overwhelming number could not conceivably be parried.

  14. If there had been an observer somewhere, he could not conceivably have detected the ships.

  15. Nobody could conceivably predict when a ship from many light-years away would arrive!

  16. The flesh and the shop will return no matter with how many pitchforks we expel them, for we cannot conceivably expel them thoroughly; therefore it is better not to be too hard upon them.

  17. Now, if modern capital were really of this nature, the state no doubt might conceivably do something like what the writer suggests, in the way of dealing out similar industrial opportunities to everybody.

  18. An "union of hearts" with England might conceivably mean Mary's acceptance of the Anglican faith.

  19. Gentleness might conceivably have led her even to adopt the Anglican faith, or so it was deemed by some observers, but insolence and outrage had another effect on her temper.

  20. There might indeed, on some theories, be a conceivably good architecture for Exchanges--that is to say if there were any heroism in the fact or deed of exchange, which might be typically carved on the outside of your building.

  21. Quite conceivably so, my dear: as also earthquakes and pestilences; but of such ultimate purposes we can have no sight.

  22. This similarity of burial custom, though it may conceivably indicate intercourse, certainly does not prove identity of race, as has been sometimes claimed.

  23. Now to reduce architecture to good sound building and good workmanship seemed to promise at any rate a better basis to work upon than the mere imitation of classic or medieval detail; it might conceivably furnish a new starting-point.

  24. And that is why it is a temptation to suggest that conceivably you had made one here.

  25. Was he conceivably the kind of man who is capable of thinking one thing and doing another?

  26. That is because I have not conceivably made any such mistake.

  27. Had Thiers followed his earlier convictions and declared for such a Restoration, it might quite conceivably have come about without very much resistance.

  28. Other towns in the centre and south, notably Lyons, were also on the brink of revolutionary socialism, and the success of the movement in Paris might conceivably have led to a widespread trial of the communal experiment.

  29. Russia might conceivably fight Turkey and Great Britain; but she would not wage war against Austria as well.

  30. If you don't keep a sharp eye in directing this instinct, it may conceivably end in an "Othello" or in a "Divina Commedia.

  31. But the process (you will admit) might be invidious, might lend itself to misunderstanding, might conceivably even lead to re-imposition of an oath forbidding the use of a knife or other sharp implement.

  32. Conceivably this might interfere seriously with the English food supplies from Australia and New Zealand, particularly with the supplies of meat from the latter.

  33. No skulls of this type and date have been discovered, but broad-headed types occur sporadically in Wales, Ireland and the western islands of Scotland, which may conceivably represent descendants of early Ofnet or Alpine immigrants.

  34. She had been greatly pleased with the size and comfort of her schoolroom, which she had entirely to herself, to read or write or play the piano in, outside hours of lessons, which were at first as short as was conceivably possible.

  35. Quite conceivably it may have been started by the enemy themselves.

  36. The inscription refers to Ur-Engur, king of Ur, who may conceivably be the figure seated on the throne; in support of this theory, it is worth noting that the kings of this dynasty were often deified while yet on earth.

  37. Moreover, the hammock had been decorously slung behind it, so that even though a visitor might conceivably penetrate as far as the arbour, it was extremely unlikely that the hammock would come into the range of discovery.

  38. Had she conceivably been mistaken in him?

  39. Nevertheless, if such geographical and ethnological changes as these were accomplished and to be maintained, who can conceivably imagine that Germany can afford to modify her militarism?


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conceivably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chance; perchance; perhaps; seemingly; well