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Example sentences for "quite likely"

  • If they don't, it's quite likely she'll shake it loose or pitch some of them off the bridge.

  • Seems to me quite likely one of those Bush-ranchers would take you in a while, even if he didn't exactly want a hired man; but they don't do that kind of thing in the city.

  • It's quite likely you'll get that contract if you apply for it.

  • It's quite likely it's that blame insect Martial coming back.

  • Then one is quite likely to hear the petulant, alarmed barking of zebra, or to feel the vibrations of many hoofs.

  • Then he is quite likely to finish what was at first a blind dash by a genuine charge.

  • Quite likely he must now stand a charge afoot, and drop his beast before it gets to him.

  • Furthermore, he may be astonished and dismayed to discover that of a group of several lions, two or three besides the wounded animal are quite likely to take up the quarrel and charge too.

  • If each man did the mental work for which he was fit, and which he enjoyed, men would work willingly much longer than they now do.

  • Your" is also a symbolic statement of a relation.

  • If we had to spend all our lives learning to dress and undress, to find our way about our own house or city, to spell and to pronounce correctly, it is clear how little variety and diversity we should ever attain in our lives.

  • Theology, though essentially a product of reflection upon the religious experience itself, tends to incorporate extra-religious material into its system.

  • Tom Wychecombe he thought it quite likely might be the son, and heir of the lord of the manor, both being in mourning; though he decided in his own mind that there was not the smallest family likeness between them.

  • Mr. Thomas Wychecombe does not think of you as a wife, quite likely, just at this moment; but the largest whales are taken by means of very small lines, when the last are properly handled.

  • A convict, perhaps; or a servant, quite likely, who has found the name of his former master, more to his liking than his own.

  • The Revelation was written, quite likely, on the island of Patmos while all was yet fresh in his mind; or possibly in Ephesus after his release from his island prison; or perhaps begun in Patmos and put into its final shape in Ephesus.

  • Quite likely it grew up out of the experience of Israel at the last before leaving Egypt.

  • It may quite be that all this came slowly, and grew up out of the constant contact with Jesus, and out of the warm personal love between the two men; quite likely.

  • I've lived for three months on the proceeds of the only job I got; and it's quite likely I shouldn't have held out if I hadn't been broken into the thing while I got through with my studies in Toronto.

  • It's quite likely that he fancied the whole thing.

  • The address on the duplicate sales ticket is quite likely to be illegible, and to provide for all details needed for delivery necessitates a larger ticket than otherwise would be used.

  • Actually, the magnitude of the task is, to a great extent, governed by desire; a man is quite likely to obtain what he really wants, and as his desires increase the difficulties decrease.

  • A man who buys a book on advertising, or commercial law, or auditing is quite likely to be a buyer of other books on the same or kindred subjects.

  • They are the men that showed signs of kicking in the plaza, and it's quite likely he figures they'd be safer with Vincente's Peninsular battalion.

  • We'll hustle along, and it's quite likely we'll get somebody to take us in.

  • It is quite likely that it will lead us in front of a firing party," said Appleby.

  • Well," said Grant, with a merry laugh, "it is quite likely that I am now and then.

  • I don't know that trying to burn folks' houses ever did anybody much good, and it's quite likely to bring a regiment of United States cavalry down on you.

  • It's quite likely I'll have got out of the difficulty before one of those years is over.

  • That is quite likely; for his worst enemy will allow that the man is a good guide; but then, Sergeant, if the truth must be spoken, you have managed this expedition in a loose way altogether.

  • But it is an objectionable plan, because the scion of a choice variety grafted to a root of an inferior kind is quite likely to die off, and when this happens you have a worthless plant.

  • If large-rooted plants are procured from the nursery, quite likely some of the larger roots will be injured by the spade in lifting them from the row.

  • It's quite likely we might come across a Siwash or two who would pole you up the river at the head of the inlet to within easy reach of the agent's place, to-morrow.

  • It's quite likely they'd have made a deal with him if you'd kept us waiting.

  • It is, I am afraid, quite likely that I shall have to take over the schooner before very long.

  • Your neighbors mean to sell, though it's quite likely that's to meet their bills, and you always tried to get in on the first of the market until this year.

  • It's quite likely you'll have to wait," Curtis rejoined.

  • If you let up before you see him, it's quite likely he won't take you back.

  • It's quite likely that if we lie low you and I may get a hand in later on.

  • It's quite likely," said Harry, looking round at Frank.

  • Besides, it's quite likely he might send us back for it.

  • She reached here yesterday; and Rambaud, alias Chauvenet, is quite likely to arrive within a day or so.

  • Quite likely he would fade away on the morrow like a mountain shadow before the sun; and the song in her heart to-night was not love or anything akin to it, but only the joy of living.

  • That is quite likely," said John Armitage, with unbroken gravity.

  • Quite likely; and mobs will rendezvous in its shadow to march upon the royal palaces.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite likely" 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:
    daily food; distant country; down below; human liberty; others are; quite alone; quite ashamed; quite close; quite common; quite content; quite correct; quite distinct; quite enough; quite fresh; quite happy; quite hardy; quite naturally; quite ready; quite safe; quite straight; quite sufficient; quite the; quite thick; quite understand; quite unknown; quite well