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Example sentences for "more probable"

  • As all men desire pleasure, nothing can be more probable, than its existence when there is no external obstacle to the producing it, and men perceive no danger in following their inclinations.

  • But it is more probable he was guiltless of the mistake.

  • However much misquoted in Medwin's Life of Shelley, the verses must have been bad; but it is more probable that 'Carolus Mackintosh .

  • It is more probable it originated from the fruit being covered with a beautiful blue violet bloom, a characteristic which was observed by Rivinius and Moulin, a hundred and fifty years ago.

  • A] It is more probable that it has existed as an indigenous tree throughout all ages, and that the most ancient varieties were accidental variations of the original species, with which the forests abounded.

  • If, therefore, they travelled by land, no serious difficulty would lie in their way; but Renaudot thinks it more probable, that they proceeded thither by sea.

  • To make it more probable, you may say that you suspect too much study has made me crazy; otherwise I had never thought of so foolish a thing.

  • It is, however, not at all probable that land-shells have often been thus transported; the feet of birds offer a more probable method.

  • It seems to me more probable, therefore, that Rana arvalis came with the Siberian migration.

  • That the genus has migrated from America eastward to Europe appears to be more probable than a migration in the opposite direction.

  • A more probable conclusion is, that he feared to alarm the jealousy of his officers, and carefully abstained from doing that which might confirm the general suspicion, that he designed to make the protectorship hereditary in his family.

  • It may have been, that his cautious mind figured to itself danger in delay; it is more probable that he sought to give additional value to his services in the eyes of the new sovereign.

  • It is more probable that he was led by considerations of interest.

  • It is more probable that, apart from instances such as those just given, the Church cannot legislate regarding acts that are purely internal.

  • Neither may disregard his suspicion, even if its contrary is more probable, because the safer side must here be taken.

  • That this is more probable, common experience proves, as Orestes was but the other day a king, and is now a beggar.

  • A more probable explanation of the error in the date was suggested by Mr. Munro in the Journal of Philology.

  • A more probable explanation of recorded sun-darkenings seems, however, to be the passing of a meteoric or nebulous cloud between the sun and the earth.

  • This seems a more probable mass if the nebula is--as Bohlin's parallax implies--a member of our sidereal system.

  • A more probable explanation is given by an hypothesis which we owe to Klinkerfues, and which has more recently been further developed by Wilsing, viz.

  • It is more probable that he wished the state of the Fidenatians to be so compromised by their participation in so great a crime, that they might not afterwards look to any hope from the Romans.

  • Therefore it is more probable that by them the minds of her cruel husband and of her mother-in-law, who was pitiless and implacable, as experience teaches us, were exasperated all the more.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aqueous solutions; being prepared; more abundant; more abundantly; more agreeable; more ancient; more brilliant; more cards; more considerable; more correct; more death; more effectually; more fortunate; more gently; more liberal; more nearly; more numerous; more often; more regular; more seen; more things; more times; more truly; more value; more vigorous; things divine