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Example sentences for "likely enough"

  • Likely enough they'll be setting them after us before this.

  • In all probability, the shipping-agent sleeps by the side of his ledger; or, if not, likely enough one of his clerks.

  • Likely enough some of them have formed part of that great pile.

  • We constituted about the most select audience in the world enjoying what was, likely enough, its most remarkable entertainment.

  • They could swim all day, likely enough, those graceless young scamps.

  • That's likely enough, that's likely enough," said Bartle meditatively.

  • Mind how you show yourself, captain, as likely enough one of them is on the watch, expecting that we should be sure, sooner or later, to take a look out of that window.

  • It is likely enough some of the horses may give out, or get speared if the blacks make a fight of it, and half a dozen spare horses would come in very handy.

  • Those parties the two fellows who got away went to fetch will, likely enough, bar our way.

  • Likely enough, Yossouf; I did not think of that.

  • If they find no traces of us they will, likely enough, set sail before night.

  • Sphaerus was one of the first of Zeno the Citiean's scholars, and it is likely enough that he admired the manly temper of Cleomenes and inflamed his generous ambition.

  • That part is likely enough; but it is not likely that they take many tigers in this way.

  • Indeed, while passing through the underwood he had noticed many curious kinds that were quite new to him, and he would be likely enough to find some altogether unknown to the botanical world.

  • Elephant before it was brought into the battle-field, is likely enough.

  • That it was made to blow earlier than might have been the case is likely enough, but that is the extent of the miraculous character of the event.

  • That the flesh of swine should be forbidden food is likely enough, considering the effects which the habitual eating of swine's flesh is said to produce in hot countries.

  • You'll likely enough do as much for me in our next charge.

  • All the better; for if those scoundrels come back, as is likely enough, there is no chance of their finding us, for I can hardly see you, though I am touching you.

  • I should just do it because it would be a good thing to do, and would save the lives of some of our grenadiers, who will, likely enough, lead the assault.

  • It is likely enough that he is some grand officer belonging to the royalist army.

  • It's likely enough that my ex-comrades have abandoned the siege.

  • Likely enough, generosity will prompt him to feign a love which he does not feel, and which I could not believe in.

  • He would be likely enough to play the poltroon; but whether so or not, the charge and challenge would go some way towards exposing him.

  • Likely enough, it had been shot at before, or otherwise attacked; and now recognised in the upright form a dangerous enemy.

  • It is likely enough to be true," Vincent said.

  • If she sees us making over she's likely enough to come and ask us some questions.

  • You haven't got much to go upon, because this man you are after has been away from here a good many years and won't be known; besides, likely enough he went by some other name down here.

  • We lie in the middle of the cavalry brigade with two regiments each side of us, so it is likely enough this is the gathering place.

  • Likely enough it was caused by the mere wrenching away of a couple of rivets.

  • Likely enough she'll have started a plate somewhere.

  • I don't know anything for certain; but it's likely enough.

  • The best shot in the Dominion--likely enough, in the world.

  • Such a thought, likely enough, did not trouble her own brain.

  • Likely enough he has been hard hit in the pocket department," rejoined her lord.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likely enough" 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:
    actual fact; awful thing; detailed description; direct statement; each according; foul ball; fresh air; general good; good song; green cloth; highest point; human felicity; likely enough; little inclination; long inscription; one and the same; salt fish; she concluded; stirring constantly; thou sayst; vicar general; wild yell