We found over 1000 examples of how to use might in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | Instead of giving the money, that is the normal coin of the realm, which is the phrase that everyone used then, they would give them a token, and this token might be metal, might be wood, might be cardboard. | |
| 2. | One of the young fairies who sat near heard her, and, judging that she might give the little Princess some unlucky gift, hid herself behind the curtains as soon as they left the table. She hoped that she might speak last and undo as much as she could the evil which the old fairy might do. | |
| 3. | He cleansed the fountains, that the water might be clear and pure; carried the manure out of the yard for fear lest the smell might prove offensive; and trimmed his orchard that it might appear in all its beauty. | |
| 4. | So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died. | |
| 5. | What you don't see and hear with your own ears and eyes might be true, but it might also not be true. | |
| 6. | There are problems that Japan might not be able to solve independently but which it might be able to solve in cooperation with Korea. | |
| 7. | Children below the age of 8 have an underdeveloped frontal lobe that might cause them to be unable to separate reality from fantasy. Some of them might believe that there are monsters in their closet or under the bed, for example. They are also sometimes unable to distinguish dreams from reality. | |
| 8. | People living on coastlines might lose their homes, and cities might be completely submerged. | |
| 9. | Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing A happy daisy, in the garden path That so your silver foot might press me going, Might press me going even unto death. | |
| 10. | During hard times, people might not go on a trip, but they might be willing to pay extra for good coffee. | |
| 11. | When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf. | |
| 12. | If there were no such thing as display in the world, my private opinion is, and I hope you agree with me, that we might get on a great deal better than we do, and might be infinitely more agreeable company than we are. | |
| 13. | The context is the most important thing in a translation. A translator might forget a word, but if the context is clear enough to him, he could make himself understood with no problems, but if he gets an isolated sentence with no explanation, he might understand it ambiguously and he won't translate the real meaning from the original language. That's why you should always provide context when asking for a translator's help. | |
| 14. | It might freeze, it might thaw. | |
| 15. | This might be real, or it might not. | |
| 16. | The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. | |
| 17. | No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! | |
| 18. | With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. | |
| 19. | "In a changing world, with a rapidly changing climate, we do expect there to be lots of cases where natives will no longer be as successful in a region. And some of the non-natives might actually step in and play some of those ecosystem services roles that we might want," he said. | |
| 20. | And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out; that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive. | |
| 21. | You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people. | |
| 22. | Two new studies suggest that college graduates entering the U.S. job market might not work in the field they studied. They also might change jobs and careers more often than earlier generations, presenting challenges and difficulties in an economy that is experiencing disruption. | |
| 23. | We ought always to treat our friend as though he might one day be our enemy, and our enemy as though he might one day be our friend. | |
| 24. | You might win, and you might not. | |
| 25. | Don't be nice to those who might forget it, and don't be mean to those who might remember. |