He might just as well have kept it from me; calculating on the chances of its not coming out: many boys would have done so.
When I returned to the carriage, as my father had desired me to take an airing, I thought I might as well have a companion, so I directed them to drive to Mr Cophagus's.
That one glimpse of the sun was all Maia had for some time, for the corn sprung up so thickly over the hole and about the house, that there might almost as well have been no sun at all.
Samba tried to check his steed, but he might as well have sought to stop the wind, and it seemed no more than a few minutes before they were grappling hand to hand with the Moors.
But he might as well have talked to the winds, for at last the queen grew angry, and ordered him to be put in a crystal cage which was built for him round a pointed rock.
Because if it is, there's no use in your waitin' to tell me, you might as well have it over at once.
Tell me what your name is, darling," said the woman, but she might as well have importuned a flower.
I hailed her, and asked her to bring me a tumbler of milk, but I might as well have spoken to a Porto Rico donkey.
I might as well have sent my defiance to the Eddystone lighthouse.
And when the woman with the sour face opened the door an inch, she just took the receipt from me; but as to seeing her mistress, I might as well have asked to see the moon.
I might as well have tried to stem a torrent as to argue with her; so I drove on and held my tongue.
But I might as well have tried to stop the tempest in its career, as to calm the infuriated passions nurtured by the exercise of arbitrary power.
Peter and John might just as well have said, we will not preach the gospel, for if we do, we shall be taken up and put in prison, therefore there will be no use in our preaching.
It’s all good, but the best’s the best, and you may as well have it.
Well, I wanted to do something for a soldier, and when I heard you was going to France I thought you might as well have 'em.
I might as well have tried to argue the Sultan out of Mohammedanism.
I passed her in the hall just now, and I might as well havebeen in Halifax.
We might just as well have put in railroad bonds, but we didn't know how many railroads would default in their interest.
We might just as well have put in state bonds as security for those bank notes.
We might just as well have put in real estate, but we didn't know whether the neighbors of the banker would appraise the real estate at its actual cash-selling value.
But the mayor might aswell have talked to the waves of the sea.
He might as well have talked to the wild winds as either to the barons or the king.
He then attempted to remount, but he might as well have attempted to scale the heavens.
My sentiment hasn't prospered: it might just as well have been a three-penny-piece!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well have" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
