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Example sentences for "might get"

  • There was nothing but jungle all around, and if I advanced I was afraid I might get out of touch with everybody and not be going in the right direction.

  • We might get a band of horses, each having been bridled and saddled two or three times, but none of them having been broken beyond the extent implied in this bridling and saddling.

  • There was a broken chair in the room, and I got a leg of it loose and put it down beside me where it was not visible, but where I might get at it in a hurry if necessary.

  • I marked everything and everyone, though all my thought was how I might get to the king.

  • Capitaine, and it might get me into an awkward fix.

  • A score or so I might get," the man answered presently after some debate.

  • Having never seen the like before, he could not but admire them, and judging that he might get a considerable sum for them, he was very joyful.

  • Then Sir Launcelot rode till night, and by adventure he met an hermit, and each of them saluted other; and there he rested with that good man all night, and gave his horse such as he might get.

  • If I chose to interfere in this business, now, I might get up as pretty a story of hatred and persecution as the Methodists need desire to publish in the next number of their magazine.

  • SHE thought of her lace caps and saved all her money to buy 'em; she thought nothing about how she might get a clean heart and a right spirit--she only wanted to have better lace than other girls.

  • Ye might get religion, and that 'ud be the best day's earnings y' ever made.

  • And then the little baby was born, when I didn't expect it; and the thought came into my mind that I might get rid of it and go home again.

  • He went round about Job, to see by what hog-hole he might get at him, that he might smite him under the fifth rib.

  • If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but a few, in comparison of what we might get.

  • Still, by going up at night we might get in among their fleet unnoticed, and might even capture one or two vessels.

  • He might get down to Bahia, but the same difficulty would present itself.

  • The surf on the bar will be tremendous, but if we could stick to the casks we might get through it.

  • He was cooler than I, and replied, smiling, that he was not going to fight for so foolish a cause, and that I might get into my carriage again, as he would make way for me.

  • As soon as I was out of this snare I rang my bell, not to have them followed but that I might get dressed as quickly as possible.

  • I dare not accompany you, as I am well known in the town and it might get me into trouble with the police, who are ridiculously strict in these matters.

  • These remarks destroyed the hopes Harry and I had entertained that we might get free of the pirate and ere long obtain our liberty.

  • Observing the light coming through under the roof, we concluded that we might get a look through the opening, to see what was going forward outside.

  • Even now there was a hope that we might get away, or that the stranger might after all prove a friend instead of a foe; every rope was therefore kept belayed.

  • In some places it was rather winding, and we were afraid that the blacks, by cutting off angles, might get on our flanks.

  • I was puzzled to think how I might get out of the difficulty without offending her or her father, or her female companions, who had so unreservedly bestowed her on me without being asked.

  • He might get wind of the suspicion against him and skip.

  • I could get him into the hospital he might get well; pray, sir, how far is it; and which way is it?

  • However, we might get on our horses about midday, and go up and see whether any bears came last night after you left.

  • He wished that he might get a shot at a moose, and kept his eyes wide open as they journeyed along, but saw nothing.

  • If it wasn't for our being so young we might get employment as guides.

  • It's a long distance to where we left the boys, and I might get lost by myself.

  • No; he might get awake, and find us gone.

  • One of us might get on your shoulders," suggested Hamp.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might get" 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:
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