MAYBE in a Sentence

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You can differentiate car parts by using different color markers; maybe you use one color for the left side and another for the right.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAYBE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maybe
 ad.  perhaps; possibly
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  I thought there was more to it, maybe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  It'll be over by and by, maybe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  But maybe they say it to themselves.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  I feel as if something's behind me all the time; and I'm afeard to turn around, becuz maybe there's others in front a-waiting for a chance.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  Surely he must have fainted; maybe he was dead; maybe his heart had burst under terror and excitement.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Well, I reckon maybe that's so.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Presently it occurred to Tom that maybe Huck might come this very night and give the signal.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Then he remembered that the Widow Douglas had been kind to him more than once, and maybe these men were going to murder her.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  There's another that you're more beholden to than you are to me and my boys, maybe, but he don't allow me to tell his name.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  He would shout and maybe some one would come.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
13  I said it was pretty bad money, but maybe the hair-ball would take it, because maybe it wouldn't know the difference.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
14  "Maybe I am, maybe I ain't," I says.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V.
15  He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  You know that maybe it's time for miracles 'Cos I ain't giving up on love.
17  I've forgotten her name, but maybe it'll come to me later.
18  I still don't want him to go but maybe it's for the best.
19  We have room for five people, maybe six at a push.
20  He admitted that he had maybe stretched the truth a little.
21  If you wish really hard, maybe you'll get what you want.
22  Let's eat now and maybe we could catch a movie later.
23  The problems really started maybe two or three years ago.
24  Maybe they're right, but maybe not.
25  He's working maybe twenty-five hours a week.
26  Well, maybe it would be easier to start with a smaller problem.
27  Wait a while, maybe a few days.
28  You've fractured a rib, maybe more than one.
29  So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy -- and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned.
30  You can differentiate car parts by using different color markers; maybe you use one color for the left side and another for the right.