When Menelaus saw this he doubted whether to let him choose his own time for speaking, or to ask him at once and find what it was all about.
I have made arrangements at Brotherton, so that I can be with you till then.
It would probably be hard to extract a first blow from the whole bench of bishops.
He gave his arm to his wife and took her away, without saying a word to the Dean.
This was true, for there was no more persistent friend living than old Mrs. Jones, though it might be doubted whether, on this occasion, Lord Giblet was the friend on whose behalf she had come to Rudham.
Of course he would be at home for the hunting next winter; but he doubted whether he should be there much before that time, unless a certain coming event should make it necessary for him to go down and look after things.
After that Moggs walked home and crept into bed;--but it may be doubted whether he slept a wink that night.
Sir Thomas had been in a great hurry to get rid of Mr. Neefit, but it may be doubted whether he found Mr. Trigger much better company.
It may be doubted whether such a power as his Majesty desired was quite consistent with the principles of the constitution.
But it may be doubted whether Mr Crawley in his present mood could learn anything useful from Mr Thumble.
But he had been specially enjoined to be firm, and he doubted whether hitherto he had been firm enough.
One thing is certain about the author of this famous piece--he was not a plebeian man about town, although it may be doubted whether M.
And it may be doubted whether, from the Roman point of view, Juvenal might not justify himself to his critics.
It may be doubted whether it is not a conspicuous example of general disorganisation.
And he finished his article; but it may be doubted whether it was completed with the full strength and pith needed for moving the pulses of the national mind,--as they should be moved by leading articles in the D.
It may be doubted whether he would have been so well behaved to these ladies had they not been appealed to by Mr. Gibson as witnesses to the character of Miss Stanbury.
It may be doubted whether he would ever have loved his book with such jealous fondness if it had gone through a dozen editions, and everybody was quoting it to his face.
It was but a tangled skein of life that Motley's book showed us at twenty-five, and older men might well havedoubted whether it would ever be wound off in any continuous thread.
He was of a nature so low, that it might be doubted whether he could properly be an object of the hostility of reasonable beings.
Its peculiarities are so numerous that for some time naturalists doubted whether it should be considered a reptile or a bird; between which two there exist numerous points of similarity.
Events have justified their anticipations; and though it may be doubted whether this or that act of intolerance, such as the revocation of the edict in question by Louis XIV.
His coins are not found in Afghanistan; and it may be doubted whether he ever made any eastern expedition.
It may be doubted whether, among all the reliefs of the Sassanians, there is one which is so entirely devoid of artistic merit as this coarse and dull production.
He left no inscriptions, and it is doubted whether we possess any of his coins.
Chosroes, it is allowed, committed no hostile act; and it may well be doubted whetherhe really entertained the design ascribed to him.
But such an ally was not a source of much strength, and it might well be doubted whether his co-operation was worth the very considerable subsidy which he demanded, of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
It may be doubted whether some of Charles's familiars did not guess more shrewdly than Clarendon supposed.
I doubted whether I ought to retain it for myself, and whether I might not come to mischief.
I remained a fortnight under the Hakim's hands before I was well enough to walk about; and when I had reflected, I doubted whether it would not be wiser to embrace a more peaceful profession.
It is just chock full of Scotsmen, and it is very much to be doubted whether a better name could have been given it by those sons of Scotland who first made their home there.
Johnson's misconception of this passage; yet it may be doubted whether he has sufficiently simplified the meaning, which is, "yet I know that our party is fully competent to engage a more valiant foe.
It may be doubted whether the real humour of this speech has been pointed out.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubted whether" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
