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Example sentences for "might well"

  • He might well rejoice," says Johnson, "at the death of that which he could not have killed.

  • It might well be hoped that we should be able to defend our soil even against such a general and such an army as had won the battle of Landen.

  • It might well be suspected that a negotiation conducted in this manner was merely meant to divide the confederates.

  • In truth, while Mary lived, it might well be doubted whether the murder of her husband would really be a service to the Jacobite cause.

  • The grandest statue, expressing most adequately the calmness of absolutely unfettered strength, might well, in their eyes, be a veritable portrait of divinity.

  • But the Messiah himself he might well be.

  • It might well indeed be said of Mr. Seward as Mr. Webster said of Samuel Dexter, "The earnestness of his convictions wrought conviction in others.

  • His military record was faultless, as might well be inferred from the fact that he began as a private and ended with the brevet of Major-General.

  • It had now been accomplished, as might well be said, in a day.

  • No, he couldn't altogether deny it, and though it did not seem to him a particularly relevant truth he could but own that to Imogen it might well appear so.

  • She had kept him from any avowal so completely that he might well, now, wonder if his self-control had not been owing far more to the intuition of hopelessness than to mere submission.

  • But, in addition to natural solvents, there is one which we might well apply in our own interest against the time when the tribal system shall have finally disappeared.

  • It might well be said that the former shook the bush and the latter caught the birds.

  • It might well be that, after the mingled work and play of the morning, her hair should not be smooth; but she was too proud to look at her hair.

  • She had no gems about her but what she might well wear in her ordinary life, and yet the very rings on her fingers had not been put on without reference to her cousin Frank.

  • As she could only communicate with him through Mrs. Carbuncle, it might well be the case that he should have been told that he could not have access to her.

  • Anagni, in September, 1303, followed by his death, might well seem to be the beginning of the end, and the fulfilment of the prophecy.

  • The Rule had been proclaimed a revelation equal in authority to the gospel, and it might well be asked whether even the successor of St. Peter could set it aside.

  • Of this weight of Absalom's hair, how in twenty or thirty years it might well amount to two hundred shekels, or to somewhat above six pounds avoirdupois, see the Literal Accomplishment of Prophecies, p.

  • So they drank this pleasant, this sweet water; and such it seemed to be, as might well be expected where God was the donor.

  • And then he gave that noble city his blessing He prayed JESU it might well fare!

  • It might well be that thou makest only in mirth and in game.

  • For the interest which we now seek in a realistic novel we might well go to the Paston Letters.

  • And this man hearing these words, said that he 'might well in conscience consent to this sentence.

  • He might well do so; and, being a philosopher of Art as well as an artist, he had no difficulty in knowing that his aversion was founded in truth, and was fully justified by the reason of the thing.

  • Add to all this the Poet's manifest fondness for children, and his gentle and affable disposition, and we have the elements of a happy family and a cheerful home, such as might well render a good-natured man impatient of the stage.

  • Other Government Departments, he opined, might well be depleted at this moment; the Foreign Office was in exactly the reverse position.

  • No; but from certain points it might well be mistaken for it.

  • A man whose wits are not firmly rooted in earth, in warm friends and warm food, might well live a life of ceaseless trepidation.

  • It might well be, said he, that Natzie loved Blakely.

  • It might well be Elise, for who else would trust him?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might well" 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:
    better adapted; largely grown; made bishop; might appear; might call; might easily; might expect; might fall; might give; might just; might kill; might know; might mean; might naturally; might still; mighty arms; mighty blow; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty host; mighty lord; mighty nice; mighty nigh; mighty pretty; mighty shout; rubbed smooth