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Example sentences for "maybe"

Lexicographically close words:
maximis; maximize; maxims; maximum; may; maybee; maybes; mayd; mayde; mayden
  1. Maybe we'll have better luck than you think," ventured the lad, not knowing what else to say, and unwilling to betray his chagrin.

  2. Maybe he won't call," His Highness suggested hopefully.

  3. Maybe you think that," grinned Dick, "but wait until you tell Dad that Lola is sick and hear him sputter.

  4. Or maybe he would put him in the way of earning it.

  5. But maybe what we've got down doesn't make sense," objected Dick.

  6. Maybe tightening and oiling, and a few small parts to be replaced.

  7. Maybe you wouldn't get your growth if you were.

  8. Maybe I didn't roar when I saw them come pulling in against the tide, mad as two man-eating sharks.

  9. Maybe my license will come; or the inspector may appear; or O'Connel may send tidings; or news may come from New York.

  10. I hate to mention trifles at such a time, Dilly, but I thought maybe yuh ought to know that we won't be able to scare up more than a couple uh hundred more cattle, best we can do.

  11. Maybe he had put his sympathy a little too strong, but that is the way men handle each other.

  12. I was hoping we wouldn't have to take any more jolts this season--but maybe I've got more nerves than sense on this land business.

  13. Maybe yuh'd call it that--an old bachelor like you!

  14. I guess maybe it's just one uh the laws uh nature that you're always bumping into," he decided.

  15. I expect to be some busy, but maybe I'll drop in and bed down with yuh; once I hit town, it's hard to tell what I may do.

  16. I reckon maybe he likes the Pilgrim's breed better for a change.

  17. Maybe a bank had gone busted or something like that.

  18. Maybe she would get over her foolishness by the time he came in with the round-up.

  19. Or maybe the police would even get here first--depending on how far away the station is.

  20. But it's five years since I've seen that package, and maybe I'm a trifle over-anxious about it.

  21. Tony left the young fool a legacy--a bomb, and maybe there was some money, too.

  22. Maybe you didn't know that I knew it was you who were back of that attempt to murder me that night--five years ago.

  23. Maybe it was the interest coming in on that three thousand that showed up where the odds stood on a hundred thousand.

  24. You let me have a chance to talk to him privately, and maybe I can make him come across and cough up that money.

  25. But maybe I had other reasons for even getting as far as I did.

  26. And I think that the police end of to-night, and maybe some of the rest of it as well, is in the hospital by now!

  27. After that, maybe he would accept a second hundred thousand from Tydeman--and take it back to Bookie Skarvan, too!

  28. Maybe you thought I was sore on you, and there's no use saying I wasn't.

  29. Maybe we'll get along better on another tack.

  30. Maybe the secretary has something on that line.

  31. Maybe you call it civilization," Kendricks said, and turned away.

  32. Aside from the ordinary dangers, it could destroy your personal balance, maybe permanently.

  33. You may be the only Terran on Darkover, maybe the only human, who could get into a trailman's Nest without being murdered.

  34. Let us go ahead, as fast as we can travel alone, and arrange at Carthon for transit--maybe we can get pressurized aircraft to fly them from here.

  35. I turned on him to tell him so, then suddenly felt amused--or maybe it was the liquor working in me.

  36. Maybe I'm Doctor Forth," I said, noticing for the first time that I was also wearing a white coat with the caduceus emblem of Medical.

  37. I took the disease myself as a child--maybe you heard?

  38. Maybe I was a trifle too pressin', but considher fwhat I had done for the good av the temple and the iverlastin' joy av those women.

  39. That night I tuk maybe the half av three pints--not enough to turn the hair of a man in his natural senses.

  40. Maybe we'll suggest that any lottery winner is likely to be persecuted.

  41. Maybe it gives me a chance for something exciting before I ship off to the boondocks.

  42. Maybe it's what you say, and I'm just naturally suspicious.

  43. Maybe they feel they have to stand firm to prevent a lot of future trouble.

  44. Maybe now when they build the factories, they'll stay built and actually produce something.

  45. Maybe all at once everybody just left their phones off the hook or something.

  46. Maybe the wire is heavy and she can't adjust for me.

  47. Maybe he knew that newspaper stories should be taken cum grano salis, and then maybe he knew me.

  48. Maybe I'd better commence at the beginning and tell you that I first knew Joe Hogg in '79, out at the front, on the Santa Fé.

  49. Maybe it was the spirit of this same old man Borroughs, who was sleeping so peacefully under the ground that made me feel and act carefully.

  50. Maybe you think Jim and I didn't go over the history of the "front.

  51. Say, maybe this is nothing but a newspaper yarn," suggested Bert Wilson, for want of something better to say, after a period of tense silence.

  52. Maybe the boy's dad is saved, and maybe all the rest were picked up.

  53. Maybe they changed their minds at the last minute and didn't sail.

  54. She may need trimming, or lightening, or, maybe we haven't got the sail just right.

  55. You came off on this voyage in a rush, and maybe that was a good thing.

  56. Probably now we're some distance to the east of 'em now, and maybe below 'em, for all I can tell.

  57. Maybe he could get some information for you, by wire.

  58. As long as we need it--maybe longer," spoke Abe, and his voice was rather gloomy.

  59. Maybe I'll go meet them if I can arrange it.

  60. And, even if there was a wreck, maybe your folks were saved.

  61. Maybe I'll get a chance to speak to the captain now," thought Tom, wishing to get the unpleasant matter off his mind before he went to bed, if possible.

  62. These tears that I shed they are a' for my dear, And no for the dangers attending on wear, Though borne on rough seas to a far bloody shore, Maybe to return to Lochaber no more.

  63. Jean, Where heartsome with thee I hae mony day been; For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more!

  64. How the hell was he going to resist this kind of pressure even for however long the party lasted, much less for weeks or maybe months?

  65. That was something that almost never happened, especially when he'd been drinking the night before; breakfast, for him, was seldom more than a cup of coffee and maybe an English muffin.

  66. Maybe police, too, though Narvonese who aren't Kins may be able to handle that.

  67. In electronics I maybe ain't got the theory Pretty Boy has, but at building and repairing the stuff I've forgot more than he ever will know.

  68. She'd probably have a live waiter; maybe even a butler.

  69. Maybe some of you chaps can tell me why I feel as though I had to keep holding my head together to stop its flying to pieces," he concluded, pressing the heels of his hands to his temples to offset the seeming pressure from within.

  70. Maybe you noticed their home--the cottage with the screen porch a few steps from the store.

  71. I reckon I talked too much on the way over--maybe made him think I had a gold mountain.

  72. He thinks nobody knows what he's doing or maybe they figure he's just taking a walk.

  73. Maybe it was expressed in the dogma of the Tennessee judge reared in the hill country of the Cumberland river.

  74. Perhaps pine boards to cover the hovel's dirt floor; maybe a few pieces of golden oak furniture; a rifle with greater range than Aaron's old one; silk or satin to make a dress for Rosie.

  75. Maybe his ticker jammed," said Shorty Harris, "but the horses were fouled in the harness and were standing up dead.

  76. Maybe they would have made me believe Shorty Harris was important.

  77. Maybe try it, but I've got lookouts planted all along.

  78. Maybe some Big Horn sheep--" Rosie knew her man and Aaron Winters got his rifle and Rosie packed the sow-belly and beans.

  79. We took the lassie when she was a wee bairn, and she would never ha' known she wasn't ours really till maybe we were dead and gone.

  80. Ladies, if you'll cover up yore faces maybe the next two will do better.

  81. By it the latitude maybe approximately ascertained, the density of the earth's strata in different places, and its elliptical eccentricity of figure.

  82. But maybe the spars wouldn't stand," said the boy, anxiously.

  83. He would like, he declared, to take home some good heads, and maybe a bear skin or two.

  84. And--mother, don't you think maybe all this trouble has been kind of a good thing after all?

  85. It ain't anything a lady had ought to tackle--unless maybe it was a matter of life and death.

  86. Maybe to Mexico where dad made his stake.

  87. I guess I better be showing this fellow how to use the chart; maybe you'd like something to eat.

  88. Maybe some day--" "Some day doesn't mean anything at all.

  89. And he would fill in the time hunting, and maybe do a little prospecting, as he had vaguely hinted to the man who brought his supplies.

  90. Maybe we can coax something more out of him.

  91. Maybe Miss Juanita is through with my clothes by this time.

  92. I don't know; maybe we are in it tighter than ever.

  93. Maybe I'll lose my life and the vultures will pick my bones, just as they did poor Plum's.

  94. Maybe a cave would get filled with water, then some rocks would fill the cave up, causing the water to spout out into the valley.

  95. Maybe the earthquakes have something to do with the disappearance of the water.

  96. If ye kenn'd this country lang syne, your honour wad maybe ken Frank Kennedy the Supervisor.

  97. Then ye'll maybe ken a place they ca' Ellangowan?

  98. That's maybe no sae canny to tell,' said the precentor, with solemnity.

  99. Maybe you see it some day, but forget that now.

  100. Maybe so; maybe not," answered the doctor as the car turned into the village street.

  101. Maybe it will bring them luck," suggested Ben.

  102. Maybe you'll tell me what all this cellar work is for," said Bubbles.

  103. Maybe I am," said Blizzard, "and maybe I'm not.

  104. Maybe he's got something really big in view, and maybe he'll let us in on the ground floor.

  105. Maybe he's hollered this out to hide things in?

  106. Maybe I'd do better if any single solitary person in this world really gave a damn about me.

  107. Maybe that Adam and Eve were not driven out of the Garden; they may have suffered only the personification of exile.

  108. And maybe the cherubim placed at the gate of Eden, with flaming swords, were only personifications of policemen.


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