in-a-sentence.com, use might in a sentence

Use might in a sentence

Sentences starting with might

Might I ask you to give me the time? [5]
Might get along without the equerry and the page, but can't have any wine or cigars without the butler, and can't dress without my valet. [5]
Might not Jethro wish to take vengeance upon him? [9]
Might take that view of it. [8]
Might he write to her often and, tell her of his life. [5]
Might app'int Will, there, only he don't seem to want to get mixed up in it. [9]
Might call it 'The Career of a Deputy Hero. [8]
Might it not seem to your Majesty that--" "Was he of them? [11]
Might I ask, seein' as how you take this trouble, if you're goin' to fight? [13]
Might it not prove that this woman had let fall into the turbid waters of his soul the drop that was to clear them forever? [9]

Sentences ending with might

Mebbe later, when you're broken, you might. [13]
The white horse was the only one to break the silence that followed, by sneezing with all his might. [9]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
In it speech was restricted to absolute truth, iron-bound truth, implacable and uncompromising truth, let the resulting consequences be what they might. [5]
There was no warrior who could venture to cope with His might. [10]
They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. [5]
He is resolved to take a little care of the former, in pity to the latter, which I applaud, and shall second with all, my might. [5]
But to do this, of course, would be a surrender to the German contentions, an acknowledgment of the wisdom of the German methods against which she is protesting with all her might. [9]
The lash of the whip only whistled close by the cheek of the poor fainting woman, for Bent-Anat had seized Paaker's arm with all her might. [10]
Somehow or other, the rootlets, which are its tentacles, find out that there is a brook at a moderate distance from the trunk of the tree, and they make for it with all their might. [6]

Short sentences using might

He--he might excite you. [9]
They might hang you. [5]
She might as well begin. [4]
This might be true. [4]
You might like that. [5]
Anybody might know that. [5]
You might think that I... [2]
He might arrive that evening. [11]
Perhaps he might soon return. [10]
This might be so. [4]

Sentences containing might two or more times

Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
Could she say whither the winds might blow, where the seed might be planted? [9]
Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
But the man weakened and knew that he should die, and one night when the pain was sharp upon him he prayed bitterly that he might pass, or that help might come to snatch him from the grave. [11]
But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns. [2]
A man might want to save another's life, but he might choose the wrong way to do it, and that's wrongheaded; and perhaps he oughtn't to save the man's life, and that's wrong-purposed. [11]
They might be very thankful to get her back, and leave her to tell the rest of her story when she had got her strength and memory, for she was not quite herself yet, and might not be for some days. [6]
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]

More example sentences with the word might in them

If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
You might spare yourself that smile; I know her better than you do. [10]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
I suppose, with your extraordinary radical views, you mean that she might have remained here and married George. [9]
We all feel your deep trouble with you; and we would hope, if we might, but your words deny us that privilege. [5]
For his sake your beautiful Eva, with her saintly gaze, might easily forget to pray. [10]
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]
She was so young, and she had shown kindness to a Hebrew surely they might listen to her. [10]
He had a young sister with a remarkable voice--he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self-supporting might be gratified. [5]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
Women might dislike you--many of them would--though you could not understand why; but you are good, and that, I suppose, is the best thing in the world. [11]
But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
I said: "Hang you, I might have lost you! [5]
Yet to marry you, even as things are, if that might be! [11]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
I understood that you were a man of letters, and I hoped I might have the privilege of hearing from your own lips some account of your literary experiences. [6]
I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
Didn't I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever it might be, was your own free property? [5]
He might make you run the business, with Tarboe as manager. [11]
And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
I might tell you more, my lad, were it not a breach of confidence. [9]
If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?--who told you you could? [5]
I would that you might know what my mother has suffered from such a man, Richard. [9]
Think you, that you might kill my brother, whose shoe-latchet were too high for you? [11]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
And I thought you might be here. [9]
I never let you know--and yet I see now we might have got along in any other relationship. [9]
I might forget you if it were not for the stocks. [4]
Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with me because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. [7]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
It's true that you have always supported me in luxury,--that might have been enough for another woman. [9]
Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
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 might let you go and speak; but I think my chances are better than yours, Cluny. [11]
Why, Speed, if you did not love her although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to it. [7]
I don't believe you can guess, and so I might as well tell you at once. [7]
I might shame you before these great per--" "Father! [5]
Whoever you are, you are a gentleman, and you might have been my father or hers --or hers. [11]
I have needed you all my life--one in whom h might have absolute faith. [9]
It might give you a novel sensation to walk in at any time. [4]
I might have yielded to one of them but for family reasons. [4]
They have not yielded quite as much as they might have done, but pretty well--pretty well. [12]
I should have yielded myself without stint to the sympathy which this meeting might well call forth. [6]
It made distinct, yet with no obvious purpose, how good were friendship and confidence--which might be the most unselfish thing in the world--between two men. [11]
Starvation was not yet upon the garrison, and ere it would be reached Fort Pickens might be reinforced. [7]
Perhaps she might yet succeed in repairing the mischief she had done when she had allowed the emperor to sleep without giving one thought to her father. [10]
What he might yet be, who could tell? [11]
If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
He was not yet at the head of the locomotive works, he hastened to add, for fear that Cynthia might think that Mr. [9]
I couldn't go yesterday--I didn't want to go," she added, fearing he might think his work had kept her. [9]
And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
A month, a year might have elapsed. [9]
I hoped--I prayed ye might come to it. [9]
When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
That letter you wrote, that speech you made at the Chamber of Commerce dinner--" She watched him, dreading what his answer might be. [11]
And if she wrote them, they might try to stop the marriage, or at least to delay it for some years. [9]
He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
He made them write her name on a card for him, that he might not forget it. [5]
I might easily write a volume, pointing out inconsistencies between the statements in Adams's last address with one another, and with other known facts; but I am aware the reader must already be tired with the length of this article. [7]
One resolves to write a book, as he might to take a journey or to practice on the piano, and the thing is done. [4]
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
She said she would try to hope again, she would get up and follow wherever he might lead if only he would not talk like that any more. [5]
Still, curiosity, one would think, might be shed with the hair and the teeth! [10]
Hard conditions; he would take the stripes--a king might do that, but a king could not beg. [5]
An abundant supply would still remain, by virtue of which she might continue to sin without fearing that Cleopatra would ever part from her Charmian. [10]
If David, however, would stand to the shovel hat, and if Hope would be faithful for ever to the poke bonnet and grey cloth, all might yet be well. [11]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good. [5]
Here was what would prevent him from forgetting all that he had been and not been, all the happiness he might have had, all that he had lost--the ceaseless reminder. [11]
He, the philosopher, would perhaps be really grieved; aye, and if he had been at his side this morning everything might perhaps have been different. [10]
Ah, if he would only have patience, or if she could keep him distracted through this winter and their night, she might save him. [9]
If the city would only burn, that his cocksure judgment might for once be mistaken, his calmness for once broken! [9]
If Berthold Vorchtel would make up his mind to join me, it might be different, but he summoned the Council as a complainant, and if he is the one to overthrow the reeling structure, who can blame him? [10]
He said he would lose his place if this deadly telegram was sent, and he might never get another. [5]
Or, if he would have referred to the "New York Journal," he might have seen Prof. Austin Flint's cases. [3]
The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
Some of us would have been killed, but--" He then told what had been in his mind, and what might be the outcome-- the killing or capture of the whole group, and safety for all at Salem. [11]
But if you would give me part of it and keep the rest--" "So that you might have something to remind you of me when you wished to laugh at my foolishness? [5]
He must, he would forget--and he knew, that he could only succeed if he found a task which might promise to give some new occupation to his bereaved soul. [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]
In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
Ah, if necessity would but make me happy too, by giving you your liberty, that on these many miseries endured we might set up a sure home. [11]
Then her tears would burst out afresh, she would utter imploring supplications to the gods for mercy, and a few minutes later, begin conjuring her mother to take her to the hanging-gardens, that they might hear Nitetis' defence of her own conduct. [10]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
I knew she would be solicitous about what he might do down here, so I did it to quiet her and to comfort her. [5]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word might in a sentence? How do you use might in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word might? It contains example sentences with the word might, a sentence example for might, and might in sample sentence.