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Example sentences for "you might"

  • You might retort," she suggested, "that when an adult is with kindergarten children he must descend to kindergarten idioms in order to make himself intelligible.

  • You might at least marry her, as I am honourably willing to do.

  • So you might as well give in and call this affair closed.

  • And while you're about it, you might as well repeat what she said to you when you said you wouldn't recruit on the Poonga-Poonga coast for twice your screw.

  • If you neglect it, you might as well go out as an unarmed knight-banneret to fight against men in armor.

  • Thousands of millions, you might say," said the florid shopman; "but you have seen nothing as yet.

  • You might be fond of him yourself, to hear you talk,' was Madame Gaudin's comment.

  • If you, or Monsieur Hochon, or some good priest would speak of the matter to both parties, you might put a stop to the scandal which offends decent people.

  • You might at least have put on a cravat," said Flore.

  • Two little rivers, or rather two swamps, emptied out into this pond, as you might call it; and the foliage round that part of the shore had a kind of poisonous brightness.

  • I hear you do that with everything, anyhow, so you might as well do it with this, and have more fun out of it.

  • It's a kind of compliment, as it were, you might say.

  • With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

  • You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch!

  • You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

  • You might as well make a clean breast of it.

  • There was always the possibility that you might be one of those ubiquitous 'innocent bystanders.

  • You might as well make a clean breast of Mike's share in that murder downstairs--Larry the Bat, here, has already told us the whole story.

  • I told 'em you might be going that way, and could show 'em the road.

  • You'd better get her to lie down, and advise her, when she comes to, to hold her tongue, or you might be made to suffer by it.

  • As for drinking a glass of grog, you might just as soon ask him to take a little laudanum or arsenic.

  • Somehow I wasn't that much in fear of it as you might think; it was strange like, but made one pull himself together a bit.

  • Where we pulled up was one of these places, and the people were just what you might expect.

  • You might let me know where I stand, at least.

  • You might go around to the side and inquire upstairs.

  • If there was anything, you might get it, or, at least, he could tell you how.

  • After all you have said about loving me, you might hear me.

  • You might as well set Mount AEtna on them flat, and tell them to stand up under it, as tell me to elevate my servants under all the superincumbent mass of society upon them.

  • You might be less unhappy--and Clayton less uneasy.

  • You might be something even better if you were," retorted he coldly.

  • But you may be doing it because--well, you might be tired and want to settle down.

  • You might find it amusing, and maybe you could do something for her.

  • A would eat well enough when 'a seed the trough, but when his back was turned, you might a-rattled the bucket all day, the poor soul never heard ye.

  • Even if she had not known better than to leave her home, you might have, I should think.

  • You might go higher than a bankrupt pa'son's girl then.

  • She is not so silly as you might suppose," she said to Rowland, with dignity.

  • There are doubtless many good things you might do, if you had proper opportunity," he said.

  • You really feel as if you might do something?

  • You might complain, but you would get nothing for your pains but a ruined evening; while, as for going to law about it, you might as well go to heaven at once.

  • It was the new religion of humanity--or you might say it was the fulfillment of the old religion, since it implied but the literal application of all the teachings of Christ.

  • And a moment later came a voice from downstairs: "You might as well quit, you people.

  • You might, for example, attend the ball as Jurgen--a costume which would assure you a pleasurable evening and many pleasing acquaintances.

  • You might, with equal satisfaction, go as an Indian.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
    you are well aware; you come; you ever; you fellows; you get; you haven; you make; you mustn; you said; you think; you wish; young couple; young fellow; young gents; young lassie; young lawyer; young lord; young plants; young specimens; young trees; young women; your aunt; your house; your ladyship; your letters; your wife