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Example sentences for "might find"

  • With Beresford I sent two of my boys as guides and scouts, and I told Beresford to keep a good look-out in going out, as he might find Inyanda's impi on the right of his path, while the remaining four were away to his left.

  • In spite of all the care I had taken I had much blunted my knife, and I was afraid I might not be able to make a hole in any other case I might find.

  • I felt about everywhere, thinking I might find one of them stowed away under a cask, or in some hole or corner, but they had gone off, like imps of darkness as they were, at sunrise.

  • I supposed that we should soon get into a tropical climate, and that then I might find it disagreeably hot even down below.

  • The natives would be too ready to assist, and I might find it difficult to prevent your being carried off and stowed away till the ship sails.

  • I promised to keep up the study of the language in which he had initiated me, and to add others as I might find opportunity.

  • I could only hope that no wild beast, prowling in search of prey, might find me, as I could, I felt, offer but a slight resistance.

  • Halliday and I had been hoping that while at this spot we might find an opportunity of escaping down the river, as we had proposed,--and should I be separated from him and Ben, our plan might be defeated.

  • I begged Oswald Partridge to bring you here, that I might find out.

  • Remembering there was a thicket not far from him, in which there was a clear pool of water, Edward thought it very likely that he might find a stag there cooling himself, for the weather was now very warm at noon-day.

  • It appeared that they had found a promising placer mine in the moraine and feared we might find it and spread the news.

  • Whereof Restagnon being apprised by Ninette bethought him that in their love he might find a means to the relief of his necessities.

  • I will soon see who it is,' said I; and starting up, I rushed towards the pathway, intending to lay violent hands on any one I might find lurking in its windings.

  • I will soon see who it is," said I; and starting up, I rushed towards the pathway, intending to lay violent hands on any one I might find lurking in its windings.

  • And even if the pass itself didn't take us out we might find a cross canyon or a slope that we could climb.

  • My knowledge of the region and my friendship with the Sioux would be of great advantage to you, would be of so much advantage, in fact, that it would make me worth more than a fourth share in all the gold we might find.

  • He had not troubled to prepare one on the way; he was not sure of the mood in which he might find her; one story might suit one mood another another.

  • At length, however, he was convalescent, and being permitted to go out for an hour or two, walked forth into the town, thinking that in its streets he might find something to call his mind away from himself.

  • Our measures of time are all false and absurd together; we might find a thousand better clocks than any that have ever been carried up into the sky by a church steeple.

  • On emerging into the more open ground, we searched for some caƱon or cleft in the mountains through which we might find a passage.

  • He seemed greatly interested, and said that he sincerely hoped we might find Jack or hear of him, though he confessed that it was very much like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay.

  • I was in hopes of meeting with inhabitants, as I wanted, wherever I went, to make inquiries for Jack, not knowing where I might find him.

  • To him God gave an opportunity to die gloriously for the Faith; but, instead of accepting that noble reward joyfully, his strongest wish was that he might find a way by which he might escape alive.

  • Of this we convinced ourselves by searching the cave exhaustively for another outlet--even sounding the walls in the hope that we might find a passage that had been artificially concealed.

  • I was a little startled at that, and told her, with an apparent concern in my face, that by the same rule he might find me out, and then I was undone.

  • I was a little anxious on beginning the day's march, fearing lest we might find ourselves in the midst of that herd, for they gave no attention to man even when our people were shooting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might find" 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:
    little before; might become; might believe; might come; might easily; might even; might give; might haue; might have been expected; might have been the; might hope; might know; might make; might need; might say; might speak; might still; mighty fine; mighty hunter; mighty monarch; mighty nigh; mighty pretty; mighty warrior; mighty well; mighty wind; more good