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Example sentences for "one may"

  • With these helps, one may run in the fog now, with considerable security, and with a confidence unknown in the old days.

  • However, New Orleans has begun--just this moment, as one may say.

  • And yet, if one may judge by the past, the river towns will manage to find and use a chance, here and there, to cripple and retard their progress.

  • She was perplexed by the mention of the Austrian officer by Luigi, as one may be who divines the truth too surely, but will not accept it for its loathsomeness.

  • A man patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a gulp of wine, saying with his shrewdest air: "One may laugh at the devil once too often, though!

  • Merthyr, who talked to him as one may talk to an Italian servant.

  • Anyhow, one may be excused in not having discovered the fact in a work on Naval Timber.

  • And in every age the common man has regarded himself as competent without special training to explain by inspection (if one may use a mathematical phrase) the meaning of any words that attracted his attention.

  • There is a strange but never-failing relation between honest madmen and skillful knaves; and whenever one meets with collected numbers of the former, one may be very sure that they are secretly directed by the latter.

  • I never will converse with an absent man; one may as well talk to a deaf one.

  • The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it.

  • We do this with easy familiarity; but where there are so many tall factory chimneys, it is not so easy to point out the Monument as one may think.

  • But an Introduction is more apt to be a pillar, such as one may see in Baalbec, standing up in the air all alone, with nothing on it, and with nothing for it to do.

  • The Temple de Saint-Jean has neither the antiquity nor the completeness of those extraordinary monuments, nearly the most impressive in Europe; but, as one may say, it is very well for Poitiers.

  • But the monuments of the church of Brou are not the noblest that one may see; the great tombs of Verona are finer, and various other early Italian work.

  • Of these seven nations the remaining cities, except those which I enumerated just now, stood aside and did nothing; and if one may be allowed to speak freely, in thus standing aside they were in fact taking the side of the Medes.

  • And now he was being besieged by the Athenians, when he had not made any preparation for a siege nor had been expecting that the Hellenes would come; for they fell upon him, as one may say, inevitably.

  • But when asleep he will have such sport with her as one may have in dreams, and he will think the dream is true.

  • So now seek such a retreat for me, where no one may see me excepting you; and let no one provide for any need of mine except you, to whom I surrender and give myself.

  • For the glaring inconsistencies between the reality and the ideal, one may turn to the chronicles of the period.

  • He slept there, not without tumult of dreams, one may fancy; and on awakening next morning, the first sound he heard was that of the Regiment Glasenap under his windows, swearing fealty to the new King.

  • The Archduchess was hardly surprised, as one may believe.

  • And it ended with the Chancellor, looking most ferocious but inwardly uneasy, undertaking to put, as one may say, a flea into the Princess Hedwig's small ear.

  • He went through life, one may say, with his legs dangling, or standing on tiptoe to see things.

  • The cause lies in what is taken to be the basis of socio-biology, if one may so express it.

  • One may say of it that it is the adult form of a lower type of mind-specification.

  • The first of them is called the festival of girls, and commemorates the birth of girls generally, the advent of the universal feminine, as one may say.

  • One may be quite sure that when Queen Eleanor came to the Mount she asked the poet to recite his verses, for Eleanor gave law to poets.

  • One may be sure, too, that the bourgeois capitalist and the student of the schools, each from his own point of view, watched the Virgin with anxious interest.

  • As the architects of each new cathedral had, in the interval, insisted on apsidal chapels, one may venture to guess that the Paris scheme hampered the services.

  • But--one may be a worshipped saint and experience defection.

  • Such fiddling is indeed the peculiar diversion of the opulent of a fatly prosperous people; who take it, one may concede to them, for an inspired elimination of the higher notes of life: the very highest.

  • One may be too loftily respected--in my case.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one may" 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:
    chemical combination; chronic interstitial; familiar voice; more generous; one after; one after the other; one but; one cup sweet milk; one direction; one foot; one for; one form; one had; one hundred; one hundred thousand dollars; one hundred thousand francs; one hundred years ago; one piece; one place; one single; one thousand five hundred; one way; one will; one would have said; public morality; small hole