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Example sentences for "not likely"

  • You will naturally see that I am not likely to be interested in helping carry out that little farce!

  • You're not likely to see him, but if you happen to, say a pleasant word.

  • I never did so even as a young girl, and at this age I am not likely to fall into a foolish self-deception.

  • It is not likely he would explain himself.

  • I will put him in as good hands as I can, educate him, and acknowledge him, if he deserves it; and I fear if you bring him up he is not likely to do so.

  • No; it was like a quiet domestic picture of no recent date, not likely to be soon ended.

  • I know it is painful to you to meet me," Arthur went on, "but it is not likely to happen again for years to come.

  • The wider the distance between them, the less harm there is, for then she's not likely to deceive herself.

  • I'm not likely to settle for the next twenty years, till I'm a stout gentleman of forty; and my grandfather would never consent to part with such good tenants as you.

  • In about ten days one shall be able to judge of the complexion of the winter; but there is not likely to be much opposition.

  • But it is not likely I shall ever make it my home again; and that is partly the reason why I want my father to adopt the notion of Aimee's living with him.

  • I thought maybe you'd forgotten all about it--' 'Not likely!

  • He is a good, steady fellow, though, and gives us great satisfaction, but he is not likely to have such a brilliant career as Osborne.

  • He's not likely to marry now, so one may say it out.

  • I'm not likely to do it for Clare,' said she, leaning back languidly.

  • But the ordinary rifle-bullet, unless the objective is within very close range, is not likely to cause much harm, at least not to the mechanism of the aerial vessel.

  • For this reason ramming in mid-air is not likely to be essayed except when the situation is desperate.

  • Apart from these two nerve-centres, bombardment is not likely to effect the desired disablement, inasmuch as it cannot be rendered completely effective.

  • A government founded on principles more consonant to the wishes of the larger States, is not likely to be obtained from the smaller States.

  • New York is an importing State, and is not likely speedily to be, to any great extent, a manufacturing State.

  • That there ought to be one court of supreme and final jurisdiction, is a proposition which is not likely to be contested.

  • In passing I may say that this is the place where the Vecchietto ought to have come from, though it is not likely that he did so.

  • It is not likely we have lost much by the repainting, for where the work has not been touched it has so perished as to be hardly worth preserving, and we may think that what has been repainted was in much the same state.

  • My Lord tells me he hath no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, management, nor interest, is not likely to hold up any man, and therefore he thinks it not his obligation to stand for her against his own interest.

  • He thinks it may be the Queene hath commanded her to retire, though that is not likely.

  • We should have the whole lot after us in a minute, and it is not likely we should have got hold of the fastest ponies.

  • The general is not likely to be down here till half an hour before the train starts, and it is certainly not probable that he will count the number of carriages.

  • It is not likely ever to recover its tone.

  • It is not likely that he has any new meaning in him to-night.

  • But as it is, I made up my mind to call, especially as I am not likely to see you again the next time you come to town.

  • It is not likely to occur again," said I, smiling.

  • I am not likely to forget my mother," she said.

  • I assure you that I am not likely to talk to you so much again--ha!

  • As I look at you, I feel certain that you are the kind of woman who is not likely to check the flow of his inspiration.

  • I am not likely to forget anything you say at this our last parting.

  • I have a few treasures there that photography is not likely to surpass for some time yet.

  • No," said Trefusis, "I have had enough of love myself, and am not likely to inspire it.

  • It was he who suggested the petition, which is not likely to do much good, as the thing cannot be done in any such fashion However, I have promised Brown to get as many signatures as I can; so you may as well sign it, Erskine.

  • I am not in the way of hearing any: your morning gazetteer rarely calls on me, as I am not likely to pay him in kind.

  • I am not likely to have any more intercourse with the stage; but I shall be happy if I leave my interlude there by settling an amity between you and Mr. Harris, whence I hope he will draw profit and you more renown.

  • If I live to see you again, you will then judge whether I am changed; but a friendship so rational and so pure as mine is, and so equal for both, is not likely to have any of the fickleness of youth, when it has none of its other ingredients.

  • On what will happen I shall make no conjectures, as it is not likely I should see much of what is to come.

  • If he should be discovered, which is not likely, he would run back to me.

  • You had better take them, in case we are pursued, which is not likely.

  • I shan't get them new, one can pick up guns just as good at half the price, and as I know something about rifles I am not likely to be taken in.

  • I am not likely to grumble, Captain; I have been knocking about the King's service since I was fourteen.

  • Bertie has had three years of it now, and when he has come home I have never heard a grumble from him; and he is not likely to meet with such luxuries while we are knocking about as to make him turn up his nose at salt junk.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not likely" 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:
    both jaws; not difficult; not even; not forget; not known; not let; not likely; not necessarily; not now; not say; not speak; not the first time; not too; not wish; not worthy; note book; note paper; note the; nothing came; nothing further; nothing loth; nothing remains; nothing short; nothing whatever; notwithstanding his; notwithstanding this