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Lexicographically close words:
probabilitie; probabilities; probability; probable; probablement; probat; probate; probated; probates; probation
  1. The allusions to Pistis-Sophia are probably interpolated; there seems to be no room for her adventures in the scheme of the text.

  2. It contains several Gnôstic works translated into the Upper Egyptian dialect from the Greek, and probably is as old as the sixth century A.

  3. But could they have looked into the future and seen these same men and guns at Corinth only fourteen days later, they would probably have dropped every other work and secured them while they had this one chance.

  4. Having located a mass of the enemy, probably beyond two ranges of hills, they would stake out a line indicating the direction, then secure the range by the use of shells which gave out a yellowish vapor on bursting.

  5. The fire of the Montgolfiere might, he probably supposed, be so regulated as to enable him to rise or fall at will.

  6. To one, however, who loves a rough and adventurous trip, the ascent of this gorge will probably give great satisfaction.

  7. There is abundant evidence that they formerly had a blue dye, but indigo, originally introduced probably by the Mexicans, has superceded this.

  8. This brought us at length to the head of a great talus, down which the trail zigzagged--the incline was too steep for straight descent, probably at an angle of forty-five degrees.

  9. Probably no river in the world, of its length, has anything like the carrying power of the Colorado within its waters.

  10. Fewkes not only unearthed whole cities of the past, but, gained from the nearby Hopis their traditions, which told in reasonable and intelligible form what was most probably their history.

  11. He would have probably succeeded in this, but he had to do with four men, who seemed to have made up their minds to hunt him down.

  12. The dance had lasted some time, and would have been probably prolonged, when the fierce and terrible war cry of the Apaches re-echoed through the air.

  13. Shaw uttered a cry of surprise and terror on recognising the men who surrounded him, and who had probably saved him by answering his final shout.

  14. The stranger left the bridgehead, where he had stationed himself, probably to dispute the passage in case of necessity, and drew off, uncocking his rifle.

  15. At length, despairing probably of ever succeeding in this search of which she did not hold the thread, the girl stopped and imitated twice the snapping bark of the white coyote of the Far West.

  16. The chain has probably broken, and Dona Clara lost it--that is all.

  17. On account of his constant connection with the court, Robert de Bukton would seem more probably to have been Chaucer's Bukton, than Skeat's candidate.

  18. Thomas Frowyk was probably a member of a prominent London family of merchants.

  19. So the Richard des Armes of the records was probably "Richard de Careswell vadlet del armes" [Footnote: Exchequer K.

  20. Sir John Hauteyn probably became a citizen of London in 16 Edward II and was subsequently receiver of the King's customs of wool at London.

  21. Many of the esquires received corrodies--in most cases probably commuted for a certain yearly sum.

  22. The name of his son, as given in the pedigree, is not Nicholas; consequently Nicholas, the younger, was probably not his eldest son.

  23. He was for some years one of the chamberlains of the King's exchequer, probably as early as 1370 when on one day he conveyed payments of their annuities to Philippa Chaucer and three other damsels of the queen.

  24. That was, as Mr. Manly has indicated, very probably due to a theory of the proper subject matter of poetry-an idea current in his time and enunciated by Alan Cliartier most distinctly.

  25. Probably one hundred and fifty steps more were descended, and then they reached a wide passage.

  26. The sunlight came in through the crack, which was probably a quarter of a mile in width, and lighted up the place.

  27. She might receive a sentence of imprisonment for life, and probably not as bad as that.

  28. Lucky was probably the most nimble-footed male on the floor, and he soon laid all the rest in the shade.

  29. They had probably made half the distance to the obelisk, when the baying of a dog suddenly came to their ears.

  30. Martin was about six feet two inches in height, and weighed probably one hundred and thirty-five pounds; thus it will be seen that he possessed not an ounce of superfluous flesh.

  31. Probably the least interested one in the party was the man who had been in the cave when our friends entered.

  32. That Azurma knew what she was doing was plainly evident, for after a tedious descent of probably a mile, she came to the point she desired to reach.

  33. He was probably fifty years of age, and one look at his round, smooth-shaven face would have told the casual observer that he was a good-hearted individual.

  34. And, sure enough, he has attracted a victim, a blue gill, which is making straight for what he thinks will mean more life to him but which probably means sure death unless he succeeds in getting away again.

  35. Probably your school or church is already supplied with the necessary apparatus to do all the work as planned in this book.

  36. Probably because the Bible has a much bigger and better word, and that word is 'Life.

  37. It seems impossible to do this, and the writer of the words probably had an entirely different way of explaining how he would do it from the way we will demonstrate it here on the drawing paper today.

  38. Probably your school has a reversible blackboard mounted on an easel, like that shown in Fig.

  39. Probably no public man in America has ever been so severely assailed, so mercilessly scourged through the public press, as was Abraham Lincoln.

  40. BREAD AND SALT, a common sixteenth-century oath, probably as symbolising the necessaries of life.

  41. Callieres and Frontenac had some friends in common, and were thus brought together at court, and the plan that was adopted was probably one that they had jointly suggested to the court.

  42. He probably did some inspection of posts on the way, for he did not reach the end of his journey till the 31st.

  43. Their instinct for business was keen, and had it been possible they would probably have steered clear of politics.

  44. His wife's temper was not more haughty probably than his own; neither apparently was disposed to show any deference to the wishes of the other.

  45. Though she did not accompany her husband to Canada, and probably was not invited to do so, it is plausibly conjectured that her influence in court circles stood him in good stead on more than one occasion.

  46. We have already seen that Laval was by no means in love with the policy of fixed cures, and he was probably not sorry to be able to represent to the court that it really could not be carried into effect.

  47. Possibly it was an attempt on Frontenac's part to repay humour with humour, when he caused one of these very coureurs de bois, a man whom Perrot probably knew very well, to be hanged directly in front of his prison window.

  48. It was such an array of military and official pomp as simple New England eyes had probably never gazed on.

  49. Lorin says there was probably as much real dissension as in Frontenac's time, but that it was hushed up.

  50. Probably the absence of natural motion inspires the prophecy that we must ultimately come down: our unused legs wax morbidly restless.

  51. It was the harsh savour of reality that conjured up this flighty being, who probably never felt a sorrow or a duty.

  52. It was probably a fire lighted by settlers trailing to the farther north.

  53. III It was as the Man from Clancey's had said, no one had ever gone down Dog Nose Rapids in the nighttime, and probably no one but Jenny Long would have ventured it.

  54. If she had asked for a lieutenancy, he would probably have corrupted some member of Parliament into securing it for Jim.

  55. She realised what had happened, and probably this was the first time in her life that she had ever come by instinct to a revelation of her daughter's mind, or of the faithful meaning of incidents of their lives.

  56. Anyone seeing it for the first time would probably have taken it for a representation of the Infant Samuel.

  57. But I shrewdly suspect that she had never heard of the famous Frenchman, whose works were probably an unknown quantity in Millbrook in those days.

  58. It was probably asleep, or, at all events, it did not hasten to get out of his way, and in a moment of insane fury or drunken stupidity he had drawn forth his weapon, and shot the poor brute dead.

  59. The seeds of consumption, which had probably been implanted in her before her birth, had rapidly developed themselves under the unpromising regimen to which she had been subjected, and it was apparent that she had not long to live.

  60. It was useless, I reflected, to write to my uncle or to Alice, acquainting them with the change in my plans, for I should take the shortest route home, and should probably be in Toronto as soon as a letter could get there.

  61. This forlorn woman had probably never read the passage, but her experience brought abundant confirmation of it home to her at this time.

  62. It might well be supposed that he might, if so minded, have found a more congenial situation, but as a matter of fact, he was not over scrupulous as to the nature of his employment, and probably had his full share of the fun.

  63. The horseman, as you probably know, was Lapierre, who had been despatched by you to bring me home.

  64. The recent manifestations had probably left some lingering trace upon their nerves, but they had no premonitions of further experiences of the same character, and had soon dropped asleep.

  65. Mr. Washburn felt that a court of law would probably hesitate to enforce a lease under such circumstances, and assented that the arrangement between them should be treated as cancelled.

  66. The surviving members of that circle would probably not thank me for once more dragging their names conspicuously before the public gaze.

  67. As already mentioned, the house was probably built by Surveyor-General Ridout;--but it does not appear that either he or any member of his family ever resided there.

  68. I think that, in the case under consideration, an intelligent investigation at the time might probably have brought to light circumstances as to which the narrative, as it stands, is silent.

  69. The earliest bells were probably not cast, but made of metal plates riveted together, like the modern cow-bell.

  70. Any temporary or amateurish repairs will probably end in doing more harm than good; nor will an occasional use of oil or new ropes supply all that is wanted.

  71. The tiger was evidently lying up, probably deterred from breaking across the open by the sight of the dangurs at work.

  72. They are probably as clever, and at the same time as unscrupulous as any class in India.

  73. The Huddick passes his hands over the affected part, and mutters his muntras, which have most probably descended to him from his father.

  74. He will probably have two villages under him.

  75. It is a thick heavy covering, and in the first onset the tiger tore the blanket from the man's body, which was probably the means of saving his life.

  76. Maddened probably by terror and pain, it made straight for the line of fire, and bounded unhesitatingly right into the flame.

  77. He did not have a chance of charging, and probably had little heart for a fight.

  78. The little Hindoo scholar probably wishes to impress you with a sense of his assiduity.

  79. If the taste is at all equal to the smell, the rankest witches broth ever brewed in reeking cauldron would probably be preferable.

  80. Mehrman, whose head was by this time probably reminding him that there are 'lees to every cup,' did not seem to relish the humour.

  81. Probably he is descended from some noble house of ancient lineage.

  82. All possess a cow or two, a few goats, and probably a pair of plough-bullocks.

  83. Numbers of them are afflicted in some districts with goitre, caused probably by bad drinking water; all have a pinched, withered, wan look, that tells of hard work and insufficient fare.

  84. Up to the age of two years they have probably been with the mother, have never encountered a reverse or defeat, and having become bold by impunity, hesitate not to fly at any assailant whatever.

  85. Probably it may be the means of a change of residence, for I cannot be worse off than where I am at present.

  86. I probably may have interest enough, Billy, to get you once more on the quarter-deck if you will promise me faithfully to remain steady.

  87. Probably we may ask you a few more questions.

  88. Probably I was mistaken, as I concluded he had discarded the latter when he entered the Service as an unmanly appendage.

  89. I will ask him for two of them,” said he; “by doing this I probably may get one.

  90. On opening an old press I found several half-putrid cheeses, full of jumping gentlemen, and probably ladies, for there was a large assembly of them.

  91. After the third croak they paused, probably to give time for everybody to become honest.

  92. We discharged the guns of the privateer at it, and as it did not annoy us a second time, we supposed our shot had rather alarmed their faculties and probably subdued their courage.

  93. And you had better decide at once in favour of my advice; for as I am of a contradictory temperament, myself of to-morrow may probably contradict myself of to-day.

  94. And therefore I am not for placing the descendant of Sir Kenelm Digby, in the interval between school and college, with a man of the world, probably as cynical as Cousin Mivers and living in the stony thoroughfares of London.

  95. At a public school the chances are that Kenelm will no longer be overpowered by a sense of his own identity; he will more probably lose identity altogether.

  96. Is it only females who lived two thousand or three thousand years ago, or more probably never lived at all, whose intimacy you have cultivated?

  97. There are also cellars in the courts containing probably 2000 inhabitants.

  98. Probably he gives away in the course of the year such a sum as would put up an apparatus which would modify, if not altogether remove, the smoke.

  99. Of the number present at the schools visited, when probably the least instructed were absent, it appears that 45.

  100. This intercourse will probably lead to something like accomplishments among the young people.

  101. The meaning and intent of party, the way in which by its means social good is often worked out in a manner less harsh and abrupt, perhaps, than by any other means that has hitherto been devised, are considerations probably unknown to them.

  102. Liverpool, which we will look at next, is probably the worst.

  103. Probably we should form the most inadequate estimate of this court and cellar population, even after a long sojourn in the town.

  104. And when one looks forward to the indefinite extension that any efforts in this direction may probably enjoy, one is apt to feel as if nothing else were important, and to be inclined to expend all one’s energies in this one course.

  105. In the course of time, though we should probably have had our Domitians and our Neros, we might have delighted in a modern Trajan or an Antonine.

  106. Their absence is probably responsible for certain diseases, such as beriberi, scurvy, and possibly pellagra, as well as much ill health of a less definite sort.

  107. It is probably true, for instance, that the man or the woman who is unhealthy is now handicapped in opportunities for marriage, which may be considered an index to the ideals of society.

  108. Probably many diseases get a foothold in this way without the victim realizing in the least that they were due to his carelessness and lack of cleanliness.

  109. Sidenote: Mechanical Home Exerciser] The rowing-machine is probably the most beneficial form of mechanical home exercise that is likely to be followed faithfully.

  110. Sidenote: Tuberculosis Germs] The germ of tuberculosis is probably conveyed oftenest through the sputum of consumptives, when this sputum has been allowed to dry, has become pulverized and is breathed into the system.

  111. Super-cleanliness probably also explains the extraordinarily low mortality of Jewish rabbis as a class.

  112. This poisoning is probably due largely to the decomposition of protein in the colon.

  113. As he points out, the football squad is probably as nearly a homogeneous group as it is possible to find.

  114. Probably some of the breakdowns in middle life are due primarily to the reflex effect of eye-strain.

  115. Probably no other one hygienic requirement is of greater importance than this.

  116. As they are probably never grown under such conditions as to preclude the possibility of this danger, it would be the part of wisdom to absolutely refrain from their use.

  117. The reader should be warned that even handling either of the fungi just considered may result in poisonous symptoms--probably as a consequence of multitudes of the tiny spores of the plants being carried into the nose and mouth by the air.

  118. The explanation of this probably lies, at least in part, in the fact that the majority of drunkards only take alcohol at greater or less intervals, and as a consequence the system has time to recuperate between sprees.

  119. In other words, it is probably true that the vast majority of people who are attacked by this organism simply get colds as a consequence, and only now and then does a person get meningitis as a result.

  120. Both dogs and cats probably convey diphtheria, and both unquestionably often have within their intestinal tracts tapeworms that occasionally infect children.

  121. Probably no other daily article of food or drink is so commonly prepared in an improper manner as tea--which is all the more curious when we consider that perhaps none other that requires heat for its preparation is so easily made.

  122. Among easily digestible vegetables asparagus probably takes front rank, and in addition to this has the merit of being exceedingly agreeable to the taste.

  123. By this time they probably would have forgiven the one white man who had been in a tight fix and obliged to fight whether or no.

  124. Probably Colonel Pope and the other families had thought that they were spending Sunday at the ponds, and had not looked for them until Monday morning.

  125. Nothing was heard from the two Shadleys; probably they were dead in their wagon.

  126. One hundred had attacked Harrodsburg; a like number had attacked Boonesborough; probably one hundred guns commanded the gateway of Logan's Station.

  127. They were bound for the Shawnee towns, forty miles southwest--probably to Wakatomica.

  128. The escort were out of sight, but probably would wait for them; and anyway they felt no fear as they jounced over the rutty, frozen road.

  129. I opened it, but I discovered not a single written word, nothing but a Copenhagen newspaper, containing a lampoon upon me, and that was sent to me all that distance with postage unpaid, probably by the anonymous writer himself.

  130. Enjoy the present moment, as it will probably be the only time in which you will get abroad.

  131. She herself was dressed in black, probably as she is represented in the well-known English steel engraving of her.

  132. One of my later friends has told me that it probably was about this period that he saw me for the first time.

  133. I wished to visit Italy for the third time, there to spend a summer, that I might become acquainted with the south in its warm season, and probably return thence by Spain and France.

  134. The tin soldier has faithfully accompanied me; he is a Turk: probably some day he may relate his travels.

  135. Of a delicate constitution, probably undermined by excessive brain-work, he had died after a short illness.

  136. And I am afraid of the struggle which would probably come and pollute that sacred thing.

  137. And I may probably expect that, when I cross the threshold of Valhalla, the Lofty One will rise from his throne and come to meet me, with the drinking-horn in his hand.

  138. You have uttered the right words, though probably without knowing it.

  139. For Barbarian women can probably keep secrets no better than Roman ones.

  140. Many of her young playmates had lived as hostages and probably as captives in Roman camps and in the fortresses on the southern shore, and been restored to liberty uninjured when truce or peace was declared.

  141. You were probably detected and wish to anticipate?

  142. But the crimson glow of sunset had probably dazzled me; I did not see them when she stood on the ground by my side, though she looked graver than usual.

  143. Who are probably the leaders of the enemy?

  144. And even if it were so, the will has probably burned with the other things in the camp; and even if it should be saved, what harm can it do, if the person named as heiress also perishes during this night of universal slaughter?

  145. So, the die has probably already fallen yonder on the Ister!

  146. The Centurion will probably soon hurl the torch into the ancient dwelling of my family with the rune of the stag's antlers.

  147. Last evening, in her excitement, she probably did not hear or understand.

  148. In the former case there may probably be only slight pallor of the countenance, the ideas become confused, there is a disposition to yawn and a feeling of nausea.

  149. When the urine is in that condition, it is probably due to a complication of diseases of the bladder, the kidneys and the liver.

  150. Probably they had expected to profit by my intoxication; but finding that my new friend was benevolently bent on preventing me from getting dead drunk, had now abandoned all hope of thriving pleasantly on my winnings.

  151. It would be probably useless to argue rationally with him on certain spiritual subjects, even if his mind was in perfect health.

  152. They were gone, probably to the ballroom, to look for him.

  153. Probably she would have risked her own life ten times over rather than have obeyed him; but she had not the courage to risk her son's too; and she yielded for his sake.

  154. She was evidently struggling yet with the agitation produced by their unexpected meeting, and was, most probably for that reason, the only person in the room not conscious of the presence of the Yellow Mask.


  155. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterwards; anon; doubtless; doubtlessly; easily; hopefully; indubitably; later; likely; manana; presumably; probably; soon; truly; well


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    probably about; probably because; probably from; probably only; probably owing; probably the; probably true