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Example sentences for "thou mayest"

  • If thou mayest be of the Round Table," answered Turquine, "I defy thee, and all thy fellows.

  • Thou mayest as well winnow forth and measure the ocean with a sieve, as mete out the power of holy words, deeds, and signs, by the erring gauge of thine own reason.

  • Before I conclude this use, I would lay down a few motives, if so be thou mayest be prevailed with to look after thine own everlasting state.

  • He will aid thee to overcome thy sins: but how sin first entered into the fair creation which He made so good, thou mayest ask, but He gives no answer.

  • Thou mayest choose to take or let be the first step; but oft-times thou canst not choose touching the second and all that be to follow.

  • Thou mayest always do that, dear heart," said I.

  • And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.

  • Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

  • Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.

  • Well, said the king, thou mayest take my horse by force, but and I might prove thee whether thou wert better on horseback or I.

  • Fie on thee said Sir Launcelot, thou shameful knight, thou mayest have no mercy, and therefore arise and fight with me.

  • Thou mayest know me by this token," said Eric, and he threw towards him the skin of that lamb's tail which Skallagrim had lifted from Coldback.

  • But know this: thou mayest grease my shoes--fit work for a carline!

  • Thou mayest tell me more about him some day.

  • Thou mayest be sure that, if thou slayest them not, then thou and all of thine are to be slain.

  • Thou mayest hang it in thy house or in the house of thy gods, as thou wilt, but never was the like of it in Britain.

  • Thou mayest be sure that if so much as one of them were on board thy ship, he were a danger.

  • Thou mayest look as if thou wert bursting with wisdom, if it please thee, but see that thou give no enlightening word to thy followers.

  • Thou mayest be sure the other is not far off," observed the second.

  • Thou mayest call it what thou likest," he said, "but dreams be dreams; and this one signifieth honor.

  • In aching heart-throbs, thou mayest be heaving forth the bitter confession, "Mine iniquities have separated between me and my God.

  • Thou mayest, like him, have much to depress thy spirit.

  • Make to thyself friends, by venerating the saints of God and walking in their steps, that when thou failest, thou mayest be received into everlasting habitations.

  • If to-day thou defer it on one account, to-morrow perchance some greater obstacle will come, and so thou mayest be long time hindered from Communion and become more unfit.

  • Thou mayest change, but thou canst not better thyself; for when occasion ariseth and is accepted thou shalt find what thou didst fly from, yea more.

  • Thou mayest pause in Warwick to see thy mother.

  • Thou mayest ride my own horse, if thou shalt find him rested.

  • Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to wrench the name out of thy heart, and give thee a partner on thy pedestal.

  • Thou mayest cover up thy secret from the prying multitude.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thou mayest" 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:
    thou gavest; thou goest; thou liest; thou mayst; thou need; thou only; thou think; thou wishest; thou wolt; thou would; thou wouldest; thou wouldst; though afraid; though always; though rarely; though still; though this; thought himself; thought myself; thousand acres; thousand crowns; thousand eyes; thousand feet above the; thousand miles; thousand sighs; thousand things