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Example sentences for "could possibly"

  • If you will only sit down and tell me your story, I should like to see whether I could possibly do anything to help you.

  • If he could possibly prevent it, he would not let those innocent pigeons be mangled and slaughtered for a lazy boy's cruel gratification.

  • He took charge of the case and by the most careful treatment succeeded in freeing Benvenuto from an illness which did not seem as though it could possibly come to an end without fatal issue.

  • They were a' speaking and gabbling through other," said Ratcliffe, who was obviously unwilling to carry his evidence farther than he could possibly help.

  • I asked him what the news was,--he told me it was as good as I could possibly wish.

  • This King Grumpy, as he was called, had one son, who was as different from his father as he could possibly be.

  • I am bringing you the best news you could possibly hear?

  • Now in the next kingdom everything was as different as it could possibly be.

  • He did not want to incur potential pains and penalties at the hands of his compatriots as an "informer" if he could possibly help it.

  • The position was almost as bad as it could possibly be.

  • But the old chief had no intention of submitting to either process if he could possibly help it.

  • Sam was led to seek the Underground Rail Road, in order to get rid of his master and, at the same time, to do better for himself than he could possibly do in Slavery.

  • A sitting attitude was the only way he could possibly occupy it.

  • At first, when he became quite certain that he was not mistaken, he tried, by every means in his power, to avoid Amabilia and Concaterina, and was never alone with either of them if he could possibly help it.

  • No one ever dreamed of being out at night in those parts if he could possibly help it.

  • Each of them would have been willing to undertake the government himself, and each thought that he was the best person to whom it could possibly be entrusted.

  • I would not interfere with your pleasure in any way if I could possibly help it.

  • He retired into his own study, there to concoct the stiffest, most clerical, and most formal note to Miss Vancourt that he could possibly devise.

  • I could possibly have, and has brought me the greatest happiness of my life!

  • He came as near failure as could possibly be, last week.

  • I have had nothing to trouble me but that--yet that one trouble has seemed more than I could possibly bear.

  • Hardville had one thousand dollars to pay, more than he could possibly raise.

  • In short, as Percival said to himself, the Rocas Reef was about as little like Robinson Crusoe's island as it could possibly be.

  • Whoever would have believed that Brian could possibly be alive all this time!

  • The name Vasari was mentioned, and I came to see if it could possibly be you.

  • And then, I didn't think at first that it could possibly be safe!

  • We called up every other place he could possibly be, but nowhere was he to be found.

  • I didn't see how he could possibly help me unless he knew the whole story, and I thought I ought not tell any one that!

  • And I could perceive them to descend from on high as far as I could possibly discern a Leaf.

  • It would, therefore, be desirable, he said, to leave behind as much of our baggage as we could possibly spare, for it would only encumber our movements in battle.

  • The next day, accordingly, above thirty Spaniards and 500 Indians arrived, and each took as heavy a load of provisions as he could possibly carry.

  • Gray watched his proceedings with intense curiosity, for he could not surmise what he could possibly be about to do.

  • The noise was of quite a new character to Jacob Gray, and he could not divine how or in what manner it could possibly be produced.

  • The canal was then, and for many years afterwards, a mere straight cutting, strongly resembling a wet dock, for the repair of ships, and as little ornamental as it could possibly be.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could possibly" 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:
    could climb; could distinguish; could gain; could get; could hold; could just; could live; could look; could perceive; could possibly; could reach; could remember; could ride; could sell; could sing; could sleep; could still; could swear; could talk; could think; could understand; could walk; could well; hardly ever; national referendum; public spirit