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Example sentences for "you may"

  • You may think me hasty in my judgments, but it was practically on account of the syphon incident that I left.

  • You may as well profit by the chance as any one.

  • For all I know, you may be just that kind of a man.

  • She had as yet heard nothing of the new-found abuse which her brother was about to reform;--at least nothing which connected it with her brother's name.

  • You may think, Miss Elliot, whether he is dear to us!

  • You may do as you like, but I shall go to the play.

  • Though he had not nerves for coming away with us, and setting off again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make his way over to Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it.

  • I should not go, you may be sure, if I did not feel quite at ease about my dear child.

  • She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate.

  • Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other.

  • Nasty rude ways with strangers, as you may remember.

  • You may take it, young man, that I am versed in the elements of my business.

  • You may bring me his head upon a golden dish, Roger de Conde.

  • I love you, and be ye prince or scullion, you may have me, if you can find the means to take me.

  • Today it be my property, and as it be far from Paris, you may have it for the mere song I have named.

  • No, you may not be angry so long as I do not tell you all this.

  • You may be the one to cool first," said Henchard grimly.

  • Perhaps, as you have not mentioned your destination, you may as well keep silent upon it till you are clear off.

  • Tell her husband of this or not, as you may judge; and forgive, if you can, a woman you once deeply wronged, as she forgives you.

  • It was some while before the family recovered the fright, but as no ill consequence attended, they have had occasion since to speak of it (You may be sure) with great satisfaction.

  • You may go back from whence you came; we do not hinder you from that.

  • You may as well say I must not go out of my house if it is on fire as that I must not go out of the town I was born in when it is infected with the plague.

  • In short--I am reporting my own conversation--you may be sure I had all the good sense on my side.

  • I don't mean of the melting sort, but a sound kernel, that you may be sure of.

  • You may go any length in that sort of thing, and nothing may come of it, you know.

  • But when I tell him, you may depend on it he will say, 'Why not?

  • But your fancy farming will not do--the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy: you may as well keep a pack of hounds.

  • And as for James, you may be very sure he will always like going to Randalls, because of his daughter's being housemaid there.

  • Such an imagination has crossed me, I own, Emma; and if it never occurred to you before, you may as well take it into consideration now.

  • You may say what you chuse--but your countenance testifies that your thoughts on this subject are very much like mine.

  • You may guess, dear Miss Woodhouse, what a flurry it has thrown me in!

  • So after some time, labour, and travail, the gate of the castle that was called Impregnable was beaten open, and broken into several splinters, and so a way made to go up to the hold in which Diabolus had hid himself.

  • But it is also intricate, in that he saith, first, you may eat of all; and yet after forbids the eating of one.

  • You may be sure that Cowan carried me back to the station.

  • You may be sure I did not mention the circumstance.

  • You may be sure that Tom and Cowan and Ray were among these, and I trotted after them with the drum banging against my thighs.

  • You may drink to the devil if you like," says Major Colfax, glaring at Tom.

  • You may come, with all my heart, with one condition only--that you do not ask my business.

  • These two, as you may perceive, have a place in our State; and the meaner desires of the are held down by the virtuous desires and wisdom of the few.

  • To that resolution, said Glaucon, you may regard me as saying Agreed.

  • You may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them.

  • I rose from my seat, kissed the ground, and took my place at the table, eating, as you may suppose, with care and in moderation.

  • If he only makes a mess of the paper, you may be sure I will punish him for it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
    keep cool; twenty years; you came; you desire; you ever; you have; you just; you like; you look; you make; you only; you please; you shall; you very well know; you want; you would; young girl; young heart; young leddy; young lion; young lord; young married; young ones; young student; young women; your cousin