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Example sentences for "might make"

  • Presently he surprised me by saying: "And I might make so bold, Mr. Carvel, I would like to tell your honour something.

  • And then she was half afraid lest I might make a noise and so betray her.

  • Think what we might make of it, by acting under my direction.

  • If I know'd to what islands the schooner was bound, it might make a difference in my judgment.

  • It might make a foul wind of a fair one, and cause a fellow to go about, or ware ship, when there was not the least occasion in the world for doing anything of the sort.

  • The republicans were alarmed at the height, on which circumstances had placed him: they were suspicious of the use he might make of his power: they dreaded his renewing an antiquated royalty by the help of his army.

  • Were apprehensions entertained of the disclosures he might make?

  • Footnote 101: These words, and several others that I have quoted, prove Napoleon not to have been ignorant of the use he might make of the people.

  • In order that the Lord might excite in us so sacred a thirst, and that he might make us long the more earnestly after such heavenly objects as these, it was expedient that he should first himself thirst upon the cross for our sakes.

  • The very fact of shouting out such a charge showed a state of insubordination such as might make Wilmet's hair stand on end, and she simply disbelieved so childish an accusation against her own equal in age.

  • He continued to pardon all that came in, and the rather because by them he might make discovery of those who fled from his justice, as conscious that their crimes were beyond an act of indemnity.

  • I did not expect any direct information from her, but she might say something from which I might make inferences.

  • I might make mistakes, and do more harm than good.

  • I was afraid he might make a blunder, or in some way fail me.

  • When I was so hard up, however, after the affair with that friend of yours, I took it up one day, and thought I might make something by it to support myself a day with.

  • What pleasure should I take in any speech I might make, however original as to thought, provided the gestures I employed and the very modulation of my voice were not my own?

  • You would only have thought that I had been long abroad, and was treated like an old friend's son with whom he might make free.

  • The concern I felt at not seeing you before I left England, might make me express myself warmly, but I assure you it was nothing but concern, nor was mixed with a grain of pouting.

  • I believe it might make me leave Strawberry at a minute's warning.

  • At last I raised myself with infinite caution as though my life depended on the slightest sound that I might make; and looked over the edge of the boat.

  • He went down to the brook and searched long for a fish-bone that he might make use of for this purpose.

  • Out of these leaves," he said, "I might make a hat.

  • He planned how he might make himself a pair of shoes.

  • I thought that, being a learned man, I might make shift to make you understand, and that you would maybe go wid me and explain the matter to him.

  • He suggested that if I wrote a Jewish story, we might make enough to finance the comic paper.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might make" 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:
    army officers; beloved wife; both together; dinner time; freedom come; might bring; might easily; might expect; might have been expected; might have been said; might know; might lead; might need; might never; might obtain; might perhaps; mightily pleased; mighty great; mighty hero; mighty lord; mighty monarch; mighty pretty; mighty sight; steam engines; take time; young leddy