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Example sentences for "probability"

Lexicographically close words:
pro; proa; proas; probabilitie; probabilities; probable; probablement; probably; probat; probate
  1. Then the remainder, in more probability the allies or sworn adherents of the salteador leader, went forth in a mass.

  2. Gladsden saw that, though he had a boat got ready, the canoe must be met before he could intervene, to say nothing of the probability of a volley from the bow of the Casta Susana checking his attempt in mid career.

  3. And since tradition speaks of a Mungo's Well somewhere in these solitudes, the probability is that we have it here in the heart of these silent lonely hills.

  4. The probability is that in the first instance it was the beneficent work of the Romans in whose legions were to be found many sincere Christians, many faithful soldiers of the Cross.

  5. The steamer's officers now urged all but passengers to get on shore, and hinted at the probability of some of them being inadvertently carried over to Europe.

  6. They stated to the Court that there was no probability they should ever agree.

  7. In all probability each possessed a greater number of bondmen and bondwomen than any planter now living in Louisiana or Mississippi.

  8. The portrait is the more interesting from the probability that it is of the painter himself.

  9. Damp was in all probability not the cause of the restoration of the infant Christ.

  10. The weight of probability is decidedly in favor of the Septuagint, which gives the longer chronology.

  11. Some writers have striven to claim the remotest antiquity for this institution, but in all probability it might be dated from the captivity.

  12. It has to do with the laws of probability and the theory of games," he said.

  13. When I left, he was wriggling his way through probability math, showing the relationship between his three subjects and the solution for random choice figures which may or may not be shaded by known or not-known agency.

  14. In one of these caves they found eight human skeletons, in all probability the remains of some poor mariners who had been shipwrecked on the isle, and perished for want of food and water.

  15. From the appearance of the clouds in the evening, Mr. Bligh had no doubt they were then near the land, and the people amused themselves with conversing on the probability of what they would meet with on it.

  16. Of one thing I am quite certain: if the safety of Europe is once completely restored, the Catholics may for ever bid adieu to the slightest probability of effecting their object.

  17. In all probability no one but Paradilla knew the creature was on board, and he could have had no better guardian.

  18. In all probability he really had need of my services, and was therefore glad enough of this opportunity to secure them.

  19. My faith in Gunsaules was not great, yet the probability was that he would remain loyal to whichever party held the upper hand.

  20. In all probability the king and his court were pleased at the idea of introducing the stately ceremonial of the new faith.

  21. In all probability it was a mere transliteration of the native name of the place by the use of the Chinese, and the rendering here given was originally unthought of.

  22. The probability is that Japan received her knowledge both of Buddhism and of the Chinese character direct from China and not mainly by way of Korea.

  23. In all probability they were of the same stock but separate in government.

  24. Even with the gaps in present knowledge and the probability that developers and builders are not going to cooperate as fully and eagerly as farmers, it offers much hope.

  25. The proliferation of such small plants around cities and elsewhere is a headache to sanitary authorities, for their very size and numbers create a probability of trouble.

  26. Why, in all probability we are the first human beings who ever set foot on this enchanting spot.

  27. You--you never were, and in all human probability never will be--Grand Duke of Pfennig Anything!

  28. It was in all probability the first place at which the Aztecs saw the buildings which so astonished them, as it certainly would seem to have been the place which they chose as their early capital.

  29. By a total disregard of our clothes and of the probability that the passage sheltered at least one rattlesnake, we squirmed through and came out at the side of the topmost turret some 10 feet from the top.

  30. To ask an Indian a brief question is in all probability to have it unanswered.

  31. Tom had noticed that the white object which swooped down on old Joe, scaring him almost into a fit, was a big white owl, in all probability bewildered and blinded by the fire glow.

  32. Why everything goes to prove the probability of my statement.

  33. By that time you will in all probability have made it up with her.

  34. But Troy is near enough to that inevitable site to argue the strong probability of its having been, perhaps long before Priam's time, a great seat of empire, trade, and culture.

  35. The probability appears to be that they became a nation in their Italian home in the tenth or eleventh century B.

  36. This matter of Regular Army etiquette was fully understood as part of our drill, and the subject never gave us any uneasiness, but in all probability saved us much trouble.

  37. I learned of a dispatch making some inquiry of the officials about the probability of "reducing" the fort.

  38. In short, his sole aim was to determine certainty where certainty is possible and to determine the due degree of probability in the much vaster range of cases where only probability is attainable.

  39. In all probability he is now out whirling like a dervish.

  40. In all probability he would have logged this valley for the sake of the clear seventy-two-inch boards he could get from these trees.

  41. But I shall have to wait until they are completely matured and I have become completely blind; then a specialist will perform an operation on my eyes, and in all probability my sight will be restored for a few years.

  42. They weighed the situation, and discussed the probability of their whereabouts.

  43. Is it within the bounds of probability that he should be willing, at the bidding of his guardian, to adopt as Mentor his very correct and sententious cousin, a poor subaltern, and the next in the entail?

  44. There was some wonder at his being a grave, melancholy man, when he had all before him so richly to enjoy, contrary to every probability when he began life.

  45. Laura had some difficulty in shaking off Charlotte's company this afternoon, and was obliged to make the most of the probability of rain, and the dreadful dirt of the roads.

  46. It was always of Kinraid's return; Kinraid was full of life in Philip's dream, though in his waking hours he could and did convince himself by all the laws of probability that his rival was dead.

  47. Both were conscious of the probability of something having gone seriously wrong between the husband and wife.

  48. It is therefore with greater probability supposed to represent Smyrna, the heroic Amazon, who, according to Pliny, founded the city, and conferred on it her own name.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affinity; anticipation; aptitude; bent; bias; break; breaks; cast; certainty; chance; confidence; contemplation; contingency; delight; destiny; determinism; diathesis; disposition; eagerness; eventuality; expectation; fate; foreboding; forecast; forecasting; foresight; fortune; futurity; gamble; guesswork; hap; hope; imminence; inclination; instinct; leaning; liability; likelihood; liking; lot; luck; manana; obligation; odds; offing; omen; opportunity; outlook; penchant; possibility; posteriority; potential; potentiality; prediction; predilection; predisposition; prefiguration; prejudice; presage; presentiment; presumption; probability; proclivity; prognosis; project; promise; propensity; prospect; prospectus; readiness; reliance; risk; speculation; susceptibility; tendency; thought; tropism; turn; twist; uncertainty; warp; weakness; willingness