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Example sentences for "may say"

  • Not, he said, with the assurance of positive certainty; he has no right to do that: but he may say what he thinks, as a matter of opinion.

  • I have been superseded as to some slight intentions I had, and I may say that I have now to begin life.

  • Since I called upon you that evening when you were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind in tea, I have felt that you required to be roused with an object.

  • Again I think I may say, that's not impossible.

  • Leroux is fulfilling a mission of salvation, for which, whatever he may say, he will be rewarded.

  • No answer was vouchsafed by my unfortunate and (I may say) extinct accomplices.

  • I may say at once that my first experience was my best.

  • We were--I may say, we are--at the mercy of the merest twopenny accident.

  • My comrades, if they were not all so ready, were none of them less staunch; and I may say here at once that the inquiry came to nothing at the time, and the death of Goguelat remained a mystery of the prison.

  • I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land.

  • Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we may say it is as broad as it is long.

  • I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

  • Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

  • In fact, I may say I was taught in the colleges concerning the boundaries and the contents of our continent with a nicety that would surprise you.

  • I left him going up to bed, and went outside and ordered a carriage to take me down, and there I may say we parted for a considerable time.

  • I have been at some pains to procure my tongue-pictures of you, Deucalion, and though you do not know me yet, I may say I knew you with all thoroughness even before we met.

  • Howbeit, for no ill that he may do, nor no churlishness that he may say, will I be against him in nought that he hath set his mind on.

  • Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "Will you in nowise do nought for me whatsoever I may say?

  • Therefore to my sorrow, behoveth me to ride all lonely by the strange islands and put my body in jeopardy of death, whereof ought these knights to have great pity.

  • Sir," say the knights, "May it please you come see the lord of this castle?

  • Sir," saith the damsel, "Gramercy, and your own way see you there by yonder great cross at the entrance of yonder forest.

  • It was he who first read the Bible with me, and made me understand it, and, I may say, become fond of it.

  • Because two resolute men can do a great deal - I may say three, for in this instance Ready will be of my side, and I can call to my assistance the cabin passenger - recollect the firearms are all in the cabin.

  • The remains of this vessel appear to me as the last link between us and the civilised world, which we have been torn from, and all my thoughts of home and country, and I may say all my longing for them, are revived as strong as ever.

  • This trip we'll be able to put into the boat a bag of corn for the creatures, in case we require it, and then we may say good-bye to the ship for a day or two at least.

  • It requires all the sense of duty engendered by a long habit of ill- health and careful regimen, to keep me from excess in this, which is, I may say, my last dissipation.

  • Indeed I may say there is hardly a better place of concealment in the United Kingdom.

  • I made it my pride to keep aloof and suffice for my own entertainment; and I may say that I had neither friends nor acquaintances until I met that friend who became my wife and the mother of my children.

  • We may say, as Scott said at the grave of John Ballantyne, that he has taken with him half the sunlight out of our lives.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are now; establish himself; footed mouse; four women; good farming; half score; may also; may find; may have; may have been the; may here; may make; may mention; may not; may observe; may perhaps; may say; may seem; may suppose; maybe you; mayonnaise dressing; said when; seventy shekels; single line; six miles; took boat