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Sentences starting with likely

Likely you will see my today's article in the newspapers. [5]
Likely enough Clemens had not until then had the courage to confess. [5]
Likely enough. [13]

Sentences ending with likely

It was probable--it was likely. [13]
They thought I wanted to take the town, likely. [5]
We are going to run short, most likely. [5]
They must use some of the same people over again, likely. [5]
And then got shipwrecked, very likely. [6]
She'll be back Saturday, in the evening --about nine o'clock, likely. [5]
One of your riders, more likely. [13]
Five thousand or more, very likely. [6]
She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many as thirty men, likely. [5]
Neither is very likely. [7]

Short sentences using likely

It is most likely. [5]
I think it likely. [5]
Minister of the Interior, likely? [5]
Most likely the doctor. [2]
Name of the asylum, likely. [5]
He's delicate, likely. [5]
Foreign locality, likely. [5]
Very likely. [4]
Very likely. [10]

Sentences containing likely two or more times

They're always likely to happen with me in any case, and they are especially likely to happen where a person has--er--well, where a person is, say, about three weeks in arrears for his board. [5]
They know that the bad example is more likely to be copied than to be shunned, and that the low ideal, being easy to, follow, is more likely to be imitated than the high ideal. [4]
They kept him informed of the condition of the crops south and east, and thus he knew which articles were likely to be in demand and which articles were likely to be unsalable, weeks and even months in advance of the simple folk about him. [5]

More example sentences with the word likely in them

It wasn't because you were not likely to get elected, was it? [9]
Nobody's married him yet, and hain't likely to. [9]
They have not yet succeeded in filling her place, and I think it more than likely that you can get it. [9]
And what else would they be likely to consist of? [5]
The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha'nt us; he said a man that warn't buried was more likely to go a-ha'nting around than one that was planted and comfortable. [5]
Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
No other creature would be so likely to trouble a person who had an antipathy to it. [6]
A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. [5]
I think we worship wealth a good deal, and we worship family a good deal, but if any one presumes too much upon either, he is likely to come to grief. [4]
A very few words may be a convenience to the reader who takes up the book and wishes to know what he is likely to find in it. [6]
She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
To Miss Forsythe's wonder, Margaret did not resent this impertinence, but only said that no accumulation of years was likely to bring Carmen into either of these dangers. [4]
However, as the woman seemed likely to die with the convulsions that were tearing her, they concluded that the third could do no more than put her out of her misery with a happy dispatch. [5]
They were elected without their consent from among those who wrote to him without his consent, and it is not likely that any one so chosen declined membership. [5]
Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
Finally Richards said, with the hesitancy of one who is making a statement which is likely to encounter doubt, "Mary, Burgess is not a bad man. [5]
Quite likely she will soon find that she needs first a more general culture, and fall, in with thy wish that she should see more of the world at some large school. [5]
As your aunt will have you until you are married, which, I may say, without denying your attractions, is likely to be for some time, I intend to write to her to-night--with your consent--and ask her to allow you to remain with me all summer. [9]
Very likely they will have the sense to recall him. [10]
Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance. [10]
Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay. [4]
There was little which an artist would be tempted to sketch, or a traveller by the railroad would be likely to remember. [6]
Yet he hesitated when he found that the proposed protection was likely to work a hardship to readers of the poorer class. [5]
If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
Very likely they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart --to "Becky Thatcher," perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments, or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results. [5]
They knew we were foreigners and Protestants, and not likely to feel admiration or much friendliness toward them. [5]
Friends they still were and likely to be so always. [11]
It is probably well to have a period in the year that tests character to the utmost, and the person who can enter spring through the gate of February a better man or woman is likely to adorn society the rest of the year. [4]
I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town? [5]
If we do, we shall be likely to sit in some delicious place, listening to the band playing in the "Restauration," and to the nightingales, till the moon comes up. [4]
Very likely, if we could radically change human nature. [4]
The Honourable Dave was unmarried; and, he told Honora, not likely to become so. [9]
More likely she was only making a common friendly visit, though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair. [4]
The crowing hen was of more value than the silent hen, provided she crowed with discretion; and she was likely to be a favorite, and not at all to come to some bad end. [4]
Jean Jacques, however, was not likely to see that look; since Sebastian Dolores--that was his name--had observed from the first how the master-miller was impressed by his daughter, and he was set to turn it to account. [11]
But Miss Sadler was not a person who was likely to forget such an incident. [9]
Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. [5]
His mornings he was likely to pass in bed, smoking--he was always smoking--and attending to his correspondence and reading. [5]
The young lawyer was far more likely to find Myrtle if she were in the city than the other, even with the help of his cousin Edward. [6]
A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
The Athenian was warmly welcomed by many of the group, a fact which seems strange when we remember that courtiers are of all men the most prone to envy, and a royal favorite always the most likely object to excite their ill will. [10]
No one who visits it is likely to dispute its antiquity. [4]
In every little village there is this intellectual stir and excitement; why, even in New York, readings interfere with the german;--['Dances', likely referring to the productions of the Straus family in Vienna. [4]
He knew him very well; he was not a person to go out of his way to interfere with anybody, and more than likely it was in relation to Edith's affairs that he was asked to call. [4]
It is not very likely, as was said at the beginning of this chapter, that we shall trouble ourselves a great deal about the internal affairs of the Apollinean Institute. [6]
For to me--and very likely to many others if not to most--Warner's strength lay above all in essay-writing. [4]
Laura said that very likely it was only her nervousness. [5]
The astrologer, who very likely had never seen such delicacies before, poured out a beaker of red wine, drank it off, poured another, then began to eat with a grand appetite. [5]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
Those who write verses have no special claim to be lovers of trees, but so far as one is of the poetical temperament he is likely to be a tree-lover. [6]
He had been useful to the Chief Trader at the Fort in the early days, and having the run of the Fort and the reach of his knife, was little likely to discontinue his adherence. [11]
We're neither of us likely to quarrel with the world as it is, I think, and we might as well make fun of it together. [9]
The advertisements depend upon the circulation; the circulation is likely to dwindle if too much space is occupied by advertisements, or if it is evident that the paper belongs to its favored advertisers. [4]
A conviction grew upon him that it was a face which his son, or any other man, would not be likely to forget. [9]
We might come upon him at any moment; he might be in the garden; was quite likely to be found in the raspberry patch. [4]
But this, you understand, is only a supposed case, and not a very likely one. [6]
Richard, can you understand what it must be to have a father whom one is never likely to see again--whom, if one did see again, something painful would happen? [11]
He could be trusted to go and say, 'My lord, the carriage waits,' but if they ventured to add a sentence or two to this, his memory felt the strain and he was likely to miss fire. [5]
When the Prodigal traveled to "a far country," it is not likely that he went more than eighty or ninety miles. [5]
He sees us, too, with a hundred aspects on our faces we are never likely to see. [6]
This long rain, too, was just the kind of cause which was likely to loosen the strata of rock piled up in the ledges; if the dreaded event should ever come to pass, it would be at such a time. [6]
Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
He had used tobacco for nearly a century, and the habit has very likely been the death of him. [4]
She turned them to the sea-instinctively towards that point on the shore where she thought it likely Michel might be; as though by looking she might find comfort and support in this hard hour. [11]
I am going to take the book down, or up,--for it is not a little one,--and write out the title, which, I dare say, you remember, and very likely you have the book. [6]
You have only to see what kinds of instruction they very commonly flock to in order to guess whether they would be likely to prove sensible practitioners. [6]
We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. [4]
One is likely to remain in the inmost recesses of his heart an alien, and as a final expression of his feeling to hoist the green flag, or the dragon, or the cross of St. George. [4]
The only way to prevent it is to vaccinate, so to speak, with two or three houses, and wait; then it is not so likely to spread. [4]
If one had to name the apple of the eye of England, I think he would be likely to say that Salisbury Cathedral was as near as he could come to it, and that the white of the eye was Salisbury Close. [6]
The sun seems to move too slowly to those who long and wait, and a planet would be more likely to fail in punctuality than a lover when called by love. [10]
The book seems to me clever, interesting, very amusing, and likely to please generally. [14]
They were keen to know how much of skill was likely to enter into this duel, for each meant that it should be deadly. [11]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
Any legislation likely to interfere seriously with the occupation of the criminal class or with its increase is certain to meet with the opposition of a large body of voters. [4]
The ball seemed to him a kind of maelstrom in which all his hopes were likely to be wrecked. [4]
When you want to go visiting, or attend church, or the theatre, you never look up at the clouds to see whether it is likely to rain or not--you look at the almanac. [5]
He was ready to do what he could to help an entertainment along, if he could do it in his own way--an original way, sometimes, and not always gratifying to the committee, whose plans were likely to be prearranged. [5]
Convictions were likely to be rather infirm during those early days of the war, and subject to change without notice. [5]
Are they likely to be pacified now that we have taken off all except the tea? [9]
I am glad to be here, and to see you all again, because it is very likely that I shall not see you again. [5]
It was impossible to advance much in love-making with one who offered no obstacles, had no concealments and no embarrassments, and whom any approach to sentimentality would be quite likely to set into a fit of laughter. [5]
At the same time a man left to himself, even in the best ordered of our State prisons which is not a reformatory, would be scarcely likely to make much improvement. [4]
I must open this view of the case to my father by degrees; and, meanwhile, wait patiently till I see how affairs are likely to turn. [14]
It was in this same year, 1816, when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal, that he wrote to Brevoort, upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor: "We are all selfish beings. [4]
Since I began this letter, a messenger came to tell me Bob was lost; but by the time I reached the house his mother had found him and had him whipped, and by now, very likely, he is run away again. [7]
In affairs of this kind--in a matter of so much importance in my life," he continued, choosing his words carefully, "I am likely to know whether I am doing right or wrong. [9]
C. Well, I think she thought you would be more likely to examine her book if you were influenced. [5]
You can not think in this place any more than you can in any other in Palestine that would be likely to inspire reflection. [5]
Nor do I think I am likely to see him. [9]
It was while they were eating this soldier fare that Clemens--very likely abetted by Howells --especially urged the great commander to prepare his memoirs. [5]
It needs frost, they say, and perhaps it does; if this be so, it will have a good opportunity to go on needing it, as it will not be likely to get it. [5]
When they find they are not likely to sell out, they approach a citizen mysteriously, and say in a low voice--"Last copy, sir: double price; paper just been suppressed! [5]
From interest in these matters alone Detricand would not have remained at Bercy, but he thought to use the time for secretly meeting officers of the duchy likely to favour the cause of the Royalists. [11]
Unconscious of all these inquiries and fictions, Maurice Kirkwood lived on in his inoffensive and unexplained solitude, and seemed likely to remain an unsolved enigma. [6]
Where one of these figures is found, the forty-day-fast story is likely to grow out of it, as the mistletoe springs from the oak or apple tree. [6]
Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. [2]
The first Preface, therefore, is likely to be the weakest part of a work containing the thoughts of an honest writer. [6]
Now, perhaps, its theme is more timely, more likely to receive the attention it deserves, when the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared. [9]

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