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Example sentences for "there may"

  • There may be a place waiting on your head For laurel thick as Nero's.

  • Come, come," said I; "There may be names in your compendium That we are not yet all on fire for shouting.

  • Well, I said, there may be nothing left of our special subjects; and then we shall have to take something which is not special, but of universal application.

  • There may be some use in such general descriptions, but they can hardly be said to express the design of the writer.

  • There may be such contagion in me; I don't know.

  • There may be dirt and cobwebs over you and me perhaps, Ned, before it sees the light.

  • He generally begins by telling his story, then adds that he does not believe it, and then hints at the end that perhaps after all there may be something in it.

  • Mademoiselle, there may be truth in what you say, and again there may not.

  • There may be a trap before your feet at any moment.

  • There may have to be a more definite readjustment of our affairs now, but the old business is finished with.

  • There may be war now, it is true, but it will be a glorious war.

  • There may be work for you within the next few weeks, but you've earned a rest for a day or two, at any rate.

  • If we do not act properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would have to be produced.

  • There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin' where they make out the people too good, for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own.

  • There may be a solemn duty, and if it come we must not shrink from it.

  • Out of so many harmless ones," he said, "there may be some wild specimen from the South of a more malignant species.

  • There may be a clue after all, if we can find why today his paroxysms came on at high noon and at sunset.

  • There is no rule without an exception," said Don Lorenzo; "there may be some who are poets and yet do not think they are.

  • One moment, Mrs. Hudson, there may be an answer.

  • But I daresay it may have come to your notice that, counterfoil of another man's message, there may be some disinclination on the part of the officials to oblige you.

  • However, your unexpected visit this morning shows me that even in that world of fresh air and fair play, there may be work for me to do.

  • There may be something in this: but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring from my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  • There may be just as much lying in novels as anywhere else.

  • There may be beauty and wit and grace and naturalness and even the splendor of fortune elsewhere, but there is one woman in the world whose sweet presence would be compensation for the loss of all else.

  • There may be too much disposition to condone the crimes of those who have been considered respectable.

  • There may be an opening for him dawning now, or there may be none.

  • This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as--as there may happen to be.

  • Now if there be such a wrong assignment of names, there may also be a wrong or inappropriate assignment of verbs; and if of names and verbs then of the sentences, which are made up of them.

  • In geometrical problems, for example, there may be a flaw at the beginning, and yet the conclusion may follow consistently.

  • It would be a mistake to suppose that the analogies of language are always uniform: there may be often a choice between several, and sometimes one and sometimes another will prevail.

  • There may be eyes where we least expect--or suspect them.

  • When such a man is treated as a valet, there may be .

  • There may be some truth in some of those yarns; those who wrote them may believe in them, or some of them, at all events.

  • I have plenty of light in the room, so that through the aperture where I have not fully drawn the curtain there may be light to guide her.

  • If you are ambitious--and I know you are--there may be a field for you in such a country.

  • If there is in each State a court of final jurisdiction, there may be as many different final determinations on the same point as there are courts.

  • There may be flashes of humour here and there--" She did not wait for me to finish.

  • There may be readers who care for only one literary diet.

  • There may be a flaw in the argument, Mrs. Wilkins," I allowed.

  • There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

  • There may be skill displayed--I am told there is,--but it is not apparent.

  • There may be great performers in this line, as Harris says; this particular artist appears to me to lack something.

  • There may be yachts other than the Rogue, and skippers other than Mr. Goyles, but that experience has prejudiced me against both.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there may" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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