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Example sentences for "that might"

  • Yes, that might be left to me," the Doctor repeated, "after the other matter is settled.

  • I can see, however, that it's hardly thy place to ask him; that might be left to me.

  • That might do, as far as it goes," she remarked, after a moment's reflection.

  • Would it man the dominions, that might be serene, by the treasures it wastes-by the wars it provokes?

  • That might depend on circumstances; the character of the resolutions, in particular.

  • That might lead to evils almost as great as those produced by squatting, Dirck," returned my father.

  • Smaller missiles, that might be hurled even by the hands of the younger children, but which would prove, from the elevation of the place, exceedingly dangerous, were provided in profusion.

  • The mother herself stood at hand, holding in her arms a second offspring, that might boast of a parentage no less honourable, than that which belonged to the son of Hard-Heart.

  • She left the seclusion of Knocktarlitie with tears of sincere affection, and after heaping its inmates with all she could think of that might be valuable in their eyes.

  • That might gar me laugh, but it couldna gar me mind.

  • If the Presbytery admitted him to the kirk, in virtue rather of that act of patronage than of the general call of the congregation, that might be their error, and David allowed it was a heavy one.

  • That might hold, you know, a little provision to last for a day or two till you found it.

  • That might be as much from difference of physical as of mental constitution.

  • There was that in the deer, that might bring a Christian man to much serious reflection.

  • That might do with children, but most of our people came here with their opinions formed.

  • There are many leisure moments on board a ship, to the language of which one is a stranger, that might be usefully and agreeably relieved by going into the subject more at large.

  • He looked into his debtor nature, to see what he owed to anybody, that might be owned and settled this day.

  • Would James Phoebus, with his lion nature, ever hesitate in the duty of a citizen and a Christian under such circumstances, or forgive another man for withholding information that might be life and liberty and mercy?

  • Vesta felt in a good humor to see this weed of nature turn the handkerchief over and hold it by the thumb and finger, as if she might become accountable for anything that might happen to it.

  • The King marvelled greatly, and so made Messire Gawain set his hand to it and Lancelot and all those of the court, but he that might open it was not among them.

  • He taketh Aristor's horse, that seemed him the better, and straightway mounteth thereon, and abandoneth his own, that might go no further.

  • He would fain have sate him down before the coffin, when a voice warned him right horribly to begone thence, for that it was desired to make a judgment within there, that might not be made so long as he were there.

  • In a state of desperation he bends forward as low as he well can, wondering vaguely where on earth is his hat, and mumbles something into his plate, that might be a bit of a prayer, but certainly it is not a grace.

  • Mrs. Monkton taking it up, with a most honest curiosity, that might almost be termed anxiety, reads it through, and in turn flings it from her as though it had been a scorpion.

  • That might he, and that will he, if he engageth seriously in the affair.

  • Ay, reverend prior, if we could bring our distant voyage down to these familiar examples, there is not a crone in Moguer, or a courtier at Seville, that might not be made to comprehend the mystery.

  • Such was the state of feeling that prevailed with the admiral, as he sat in his narrow cabin, in the first hours of that appalling night, watching for any change, relieving or disastrous, that might occur.

  • That might happen to anybody, dear," said Miss Mapp, "whether tall or short.

  • That might have to be reconsidered afterwards, but at present it was valid enough.

  • If nobody of the slightest importance arrived by the tram, that might be because (a) Nothing had happened, and they were all playing golf.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that might" 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:
    that afternoon; that any; that believeth; that boy; that class; that from; that house; that island; that lady; that may; that month; that must; that night; that not; that one; that other; that party; that question; that same; that should; that sort; that state; that subject; that they; that woman; uncut edges