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Example sentences for "what may"

  • What may a man call the distance, from this place to the nighest point on the main river?

  • What may be the distance to the sources of this stream?

  • I had better own to what may be wrong personal feeling at first.

  • Now, of all persons, I must chiefly rejoice in what may help to teach in those islands.

  • With a first child, one can't guess what may be mamma's fancy, or what may be serious.

  • It aims at the satisfaction of many desires--at what may be termed satisfaction on the whole.

  • In this case we feel that we can attain without great difficulty to what may be regarded as a satisfactory knowledge of the nature of the creature studied.

  • But the whole matter is indefinitely complicated by what may be called man's multiple allegiance.

  • We accept a "given," with its validity we do not concern ourselves; our aim is the discovery of what may be gotten out of it.

  • What may be said in favor of intuitionism?

  • Now History, what may be called the Comparative History of Modern Europe, countersigns the traveller's opinion.

  • What may be called a 'textual' inspiration for selecting the right reading is requisite for the very same reason, neither more nor less, which supposes any verbal inspiration originally requisite for constituting a right reading.

  • What may be the aeon of the whole species is utterly unknown.

  • By no means a negligible element in Nelson Langmaid's professional success had been his possession of what may called a sixth sense, and more than once, on his missions of trust, he had listened to its admonitory promptings.

  • What may be heresy in one diocese is not so in another, and I can refer to you volumes written by ministers of this Church, in good standing, whose published opinions are the same as those I expressed in my sermon of yesterday.

  • Finally I came to what may be termed a double conclusion.

  • An indispensable adjunct of this Scheme will be the institution of what may be called an Intelligence Department at Headquarters.

  • An earthly god must learn to bear the want Of what may be denied him.

  • How far may not this Terzky have proceeded-- What may not he himself too have permitted Himself to do, to snare the enemy, The laws of war excusing?

  • What may not be done, my boy, before stories are warmed to animation?

  • What may we not expect from the fury of the wounded boar!

  • And presently, when these precious germs of excellence shall ripen into full maturity, what may not be expected from the full development of such a boyhood?

  • As to what may befall us outwardly, in this confused state of things, shall we not trust our tender Father, and rest satisfied in His will?

  • As a result of this strong faith, the inner life of Catherine of Genoa was characterized, in a remarkable degree, by what may be termed rest, or quietude; which is only another form of expression for true interior peace.

  • I looked thereon with the eye of my understanding, and thought, "What may this be?

  • He who is in what may be called a spiritual hurry, or rather who runs without having evidence of being spiritually sent, makes haste to no purpose.

  • And the first question of moment to any future tourist is, what may be the present value, at a British insurance office, of any given life risked upon a tour in Greece?

  • Now, here is displayed broadly the very perfection of ignorance, as measured against the very perfection of what may be called poetic science.

  • Already it had failed in what may be called one conspiracy; already it had entered upon a second, viz.

  • But what is of more importance for analysis is the study of what may well be termed Freud's masterpiece, "Die Traumdeutung.

  • No analysis is given of the different forms of wit, and the important subject of what may be called its technique is quite passed by.

  • Knight for a description of what May-day was like about four centuries ago in England.

  • In accordance with the purpose expressed in the second paragraph of that paper, I now respectfully recall your attention to what may be called "compensated emancipation.

  • Travellers are often misled by local habits in the use of what may be called representative numbers, where a definite is put for an indefinite quantity.

  • In ordinary horticultural practice it is desirable to give some guarantee as to what may be expected to come from the seeds of brightly striped flowers.

  • The peloric toad-flax is only the prototype of what may be expected in other cases.

  • It is open to discussion as to what may be the immediate cause of this sterility, but it is quite evident, that all such sterile varieties must have originated in a cultivated condition.

  • The story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be accomplished towards a more harmonious relation with the Father: towards a truer realization of God's real Kingdom.

  • This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against gravitation.

  • The fact was, that he took up his early opinions on instinct, and insensibly modified them as he studied the masters of what may be called the Middle Period of English verse.

  • We speak now of those more rememberable passages where his highest individuality reveals itself in what may truly be called a passion of thought.

  • I have been careful to confine myself to what may be called Shakespeare's ideal tragedies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what may" 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:
    certain king; electric wire; strange tongue; what appeared; what could; what direction; what does; what ground; what king; what light; what might have been; what need; what not; what power; what profit; what relates; what respect; what say; what she; what terms; what thou; what time; what took; what wilt thou have; whatever cost; whatsoever things