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Example sentences for "may appear"

  • Strange though it may appear to the advocates of thrift, although he had been so fortunate as to be in employment when so many others were idle, they had not saved any money.

  • Extraordinary as it may appear, none of them took any pride in their work: they did not 'love' it.

  • Strange and incredible as it may appear to the reader, although none of them ever did any of the things Jesus said, the people who were conducting this meeting had the effrontery to claim to be followers of Christ--Christians!

  • From this strength we have contributed to the recovery and progress of the world.

  • Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office.

  • May not a man, from want of memory, or presence of mind, omit something at his examination which he may appear afterwards to have known?

  • The sum which I have mentioned, my lords, enormous as it may appear, is by no means exaggerated beyond the truth.

  • From these facts it may appear, that their angels who sit at the head have a kind of judicial power over man, since they permit, moderate, restrain, and influence.

  • His language, therefore, must be free and unconfined, but not loose and irregular, that he may appear to walk at ease, without reeling or tottering.

  • For it is very possible not only that you and I may have different notions, but that what appears true even to myself at one time, may appear otherwise at another.

  • Strange as it may appear, the most thoughtful appearing one in the assemblage was the veteran himself.

  • That which is common in the intellectual organization of man is reflected in the general structure of language; and every idiom, however barbarous it may appear, discloses a regulating principle which has presided at its formation.

  • That three small sluices, each only 4 feet by 3 feet, should produce an effect which brought the mightiest of the swiss waterfalls to my recollection, may appear incredible, or at least like an enormous exaggeration.

  • Do you remember that Mrs. Gordon herself waged a losing battle in early days, incredible as it may appear?

  • I am not discussing motherhood per se; no woman has yet been in a position to know what it is per se, strange as it may appear.

  • I may appear a little inconsistent," Hadria added with a laugh, "but I do think women are fools!

  • Should it be necessary to increase our territory in order that the greater body of the people may have room to develop, then in that case we shall take as much land as may appear to be necessary.

  • The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen.

  • The price of venison in Great Britain, how extravagant soever it may appear, is not near sufficient to compensate the expense of a deer park, as is well known to all those who have had any experience in the feeding of deer.

  • But how disadvantageous soever this system may appear, yet, before the Union, the low price of cattle seems to have rendered it almost unavoidable.

  • This John Heywood was one of the first writers of English Plays, contemporary with the Authors of Gammar Gurton's Needle, and Tom Tyler and his Wife, as may appear by the Titles of his Interludes; viz.

  • However surprising it may appear, one of these dogs, in less than a month after he had left the kennel near Windsor, found his way back to it.

  • There never was anything for which I was so puzzled to discover a motive as this, but from accident I did discover it; and, however ludicrous it may appear, I am certain I was correct.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "may appear" 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:
    certain conditions; early youth; five years; large cities; los hombres; lucky thing; may add; may also; may come; may easily; may find; may have; may have been the; may now; may observe; may seem; may suppose; may take; may the; maybe you; mayonnaise dressing; mayst thou; our king; this land; through life; under side