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Sentences starting with may

May sacrifices be yours . [11]
May I ask your name, sir? [9]
May I know your father's name? [10]
May we use your back parlour? [11]
May I kiss you? [5]
May I ask you what you mean? [11]
May I send you the Constitution and Laws of the Club? [5]
May I offer you four thousand drachmae for your precious possession? [10]
May I trouble you for a match? [5]
May it serve you as the hill-fountain the garden in the city! [11]

Sentences ending with may

You feel it when some mysterious power, without any will of your own, prompts you to some act, be it what it may. [10]
That body was weak, but the spirit in it was the spirit of Joan of Arc; and out of that came the steadfast answer which these people were already so familiar with and detested so sincerely: "Let come what may. [5]
But he answered, urgently: "Let them get away as they may. [10]
The wild vine twined boldly up many a trunk, fruit was already forming on the bilberry bushes, though it still glimmered with a faint pink hue amid the green of May. [10]
How wonderful is truth, come it in whatsoever unexpected form it may! [5]
It is difficult to describe how everything is growing and blossoming here now, in the month of May. [10]
I shall send this, turn out as it may. [7]
We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836, when you ran against May. [7]
But is not the sunshine common, and the bloom of May? [4]
We got to the hotel where we had engaged quarters, at eleven o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, the 12th of May. [6]

Short sentences using may

You may save your strength. [10]
We may beat yet. [6]
I may be wrong. [11]
You may die without seeing. [9]
May I come with you? [2]
Clarence may be with them. [9]
May I ask why, madame? [11]
You may guess who. [11]
Yes, you may well start. [11]
Foes may have unwritten truces. [11]

Sentences containing may two or more times

Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
I knew that you would not refuse me in spite of the fact that the world may misunderstand, may sneer at your taking me. [9]
What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
As a prince you are much better than as a plain man, for princes may do what other men may not. [11]
Herewith I send you a copy of a letter written at New York, which sufficiently explains itself, and which may or may not give you a valuable hint. [7]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
For in whatever world I may find myself, I hope I shall always love our poor little spheroid, so long my home, which some kind angel may point out to me as a gilded globule swimming in the sunlight far away. [6]
This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]

More example sentences with the word may in them

You may spare yourself the question, Caesar. [10]
You may take your turn with my shears and needle one day. [11]
You may thank your Scotch blood and your strong constitution. [9]
You must leave your scholars without any leave-taking, however hard it may appear to you. [10]
You ask why your restless microscopic atoms may not come together and become self-conscious and self-moving organisms. [6]
You may answer your question yourself. [5]
Kandaules may take your place to-morrow, but give hum the strictest orders, and say that the slightest neglect will put his life in danger.--Now depart. [10]
You may thank your own nobility and courage that you remained in London after that. [9]
You may draw your own conclusions. [6]
But--but why grieve your mother when it--when it may not happen? [5]
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
Whatever may happen, your illustrious life cannot be in danger! [10]
Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
You may shake your head, but I would take your place quickly and with joyous courage. [10]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
Florida is in your Department, and it is not unlikely you may be there in person. [7]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
Thank you, my young friend--you have strong arms, and you may lift me a little higher yet. [10]
I may trust you; and never betray to Antinous what you compelled me to do? [10]
I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
They belong to you, not to me, and this very day I will send them to the noble Julia, that she may give them to you. [10]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
This is for you, and such others of tender age as you may tell it to. [6]
Well, I hope you won't come to an early grave like poor Charles,--or at any rate, that you may be prepared. [6]
An' may be you won't believe it, but after that you never see a cat so prejudiced agin quartz mining as what he was. [5]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Any man among you who is possessed of any property may read the moral of my fable. [10]
And I tell you truly, you may quite believe me: it is a pain no doubt, but I can be glad of it too. [10]
We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
It may help you to get the men together. [11]
Oh, I implore you to crush out that fatal habit while it may yet be time! [5]
And I command you to assign a place in London whence you may be reached. [9]
I now enclose you the letter, which you may use if you see fit. [7]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
I may tell you that you and Mr. Hollowell are named as executors. [4]
Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
I may inform you that my master ordered me take as much care of you as if you were his own daughter. [10]
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters. [10]
Indeed, I warn you that any money you may send will be spent in drink, and--and worse. [9]
Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young. [9]
Hospitality is sacred; you may not be a prisoner of war, for there is no war between our countries. [11]
Send us what you may know of your army vote. [7]
But remember that you may have to face hard things. [9]
Why of course you may have overheard some such jesting nonsense. [5]
One thing only you may do. [10]
So I think you may dismiss the matter from your mind without further remorse. [5]
I'm thinking that you may be of those who went out to the Arctic Sea with Sir John Franklin--with Sir John Franklin, you understand. [11]
Oh, come now, you may be a Gipsy, but that doesn't mean that you're an Egyptian or an Arab. [11]
He's all air, you know,--breeze, you may say--and he freshens them up; it's a trip to the country, they say. [5]
And yet, do you know, Miss Raglan, I don't feel a bit ashamed of it, after all: which may be evidence of my lost condition. [11]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
When you say you know that the immortals will have pity on the innocent woman whom they have led to the verge of the abyss, perhaps you may be right. [10]
My advice to you is to keep quiet, and we may have a comedy worth seeing. [9]
I may need you in Vaucouleurs; for if the governor will not receive me I will dictate a letter to him, and so must have some one by me who knows the art of how to write and spell the words. [5]
They may leave you in the bright days, not in the dark days. [11]
Tell him that you heard her voice out in the street, and with the help of a worthy old man--that am I--rescued her from any peril you may invent. [10]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want! [2]
I can give you enough for any woman's needs--the world may be yours to see and use to your heart's content. [11]
Brooks, I wish you could see the father, he's so typically unique--if one may use the expression. [9]
Now go, if you choose, and offer sacrifices to Aphrodite, that she may join the hearts of Xanthe and Phaon. [10]
But may be you can not see the wild extravagance of my panorama. [5]
The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
In the battle you are alone, but the hand to heal the wounds may be another's. [11]
With love to you and yours, S. L. C. May 13 10 A.M. [5]
I may teach you a very little directly, but I hope much more from the trains of thought I shall suggest. [3]
He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
May I offer you a place in my boat, or do you propose remaining here to assist at the festival and not starting till to-morrow morning? [10]
I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. [7]
The issue may yet have been undecided when he turned round to Jethro with a sneer which he could not resist. [9]
However, I may yet change my mind and sail Saturday. [5]
In his later years the physician may venture more boldly. [3]
And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. [11]
Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
I may be wrong; but these are my sentiments, and I am not ashamed of them. [4]
I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
It may be written down in the great speech. [7]
An Englishman may write with the most brutal frankness about any man or institution among us and we republish him without dreaming of altering a line or a word. [5]
Get them to write their wills now, or it may be too late by -and-by. [5]
And you may write the Bishop, if you wish. [9]
But I will write again when I get time, for my letters may have miscarried. [5]
The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chicago convention, contributed his, which was worth something; and I now contribute mine, which may be worth nothing. [7]
Compared with the wretched attempts of London to light that city, New York may fairly be said to be a well-lighted city. [5]
I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]

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