Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work.
Perhaps the percentage of young boys who smoke excessively is larger than the percentage of men.
Later in the disease when the heart begins to fail, perhaps the cause is a myocarditis.
It was a wonderful study,--perhaps the strongest of the three she had shown.
It is perhaps the judgment of Heaven on the Sovrani's uncle, Cardinal Bonpre!
Perhaps the end of all present things is at hand,--perhaps it is the beginning of the promised 'new heavens and new earth.
Pliny tells of another, or perhaps the same, bird, to which the Greeks gave their name for jaundice, because if a jaundiced man saw it, the disease left him and slew the bird.
Evidence of this primitive belief is furnished by a class of folk-tales of which the Norse story of "The giant who had no heart in his body" is perhaps the best-known example.
Perhaps the merit of this emperor was inadequate to his reputation; perhaps his abilities, or at least his spirit, were affected by the languor and coldness of old age.
Perhaps the circus is the norm of all splendors where the horse and his master are joined for an effect upon the imagination of the spectator.
Perhaps it was not; perhaps the fondness of those Ohio-river-born passengers was abused by an illusion (as subjective as that of the buds and birds) of a vivid variety of business and pleasure on the beloved stream.
It remained for another great passion, perhaps the greatest of my life, to fuse these gyves in which I was trying so hard to dance, and free me forever from the bonds which I had spent so much time and trouble to involve myself in.
Sir Louis did wish to have the comfort, or perhaps the honour, of a country house; but he did not wish to have the expense of keeping it up.
Nor are they commonplaces when so uttered for the first or second time at least, or perhaps the third.
This is perhaps the mark of the artist alone, and his solitary privilege.
Another version of the same story--perhaps the original--was the Mystery of Adam, one of the earliest Church plays.
If one has to make an exception, perhaps the passion of love was more serious than that of religion, and gave to religion the deepest emotion, and the most complicated one, which society knew.
In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting; his "Hymn to Venus," from Homer, is perhaps the best.
In one the most valuable passage is perhaps the Elegy on Good Sense, and the other the end of the Duke of Buckingham.
His face had that charm, perhaps the greatest, certainly the most lasting, either in women or men--of infinite variety.
Perhaps the word is rather pretentious, but it exactly expresses what I want to say, for in other words she loved evil for the sake of evil.
Perhaps the cutting of his hair makes the young gentleman nervous.
Perhaps the stillness, perhaps the darkness, perhaps the purring of the mother cat, probably all three, caused his thoughts to begin to travel through his mind slowly and more slowly.
Something--perhaps the sound of his own name falling from her lips for the first time--checked his mounting frenzy.
Perhaps the horror of it came suddenly upon him--God knows what happened when he stepped outward into depthless space and went crashing down to hell.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perhaps the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
