Use probably in a sentence
Sentences starting with probably
- Probably it was you, too, who had him flung into the water, after you had vented your wrath on him? [10]
- Probably his service would soon be claimed; for Octavianus's delay was scarcely an indication of a favourable decision of Cleopatra's fate. [10]
- Probably the world would go on much the same. [4]
- Probably the coat worked loose in crossing Toe River and the pocket-book had gone down-stream. [4]
- Probably in the whole history of crime there never was a more peculiar case. [11]
- Probably the man who first said that the line of rectitude corresponds with the line of enjoyment was disliked as well as disbelieved. [4]
- Probably the officials were aware of this, and they preferred to have our company to Shediac. [4]
- Probably because she was too proud to accept alms from a man from whom her ardent heart vainly desired something better. [10]
- Probably this manoeuvring was all nonsense, that he was wholly misreading the man; but he had always trusted his instincts, and he would not let his reason rule him entirely in such a situation. [11]
- Probably these odd volumes had not been considered worth any considerable bid at the auction. [4]
Sentences ending with probably
- This for summer wear, probably. [5]
- She finds Cornelia too strong for her, probably. [5]
- I have sometimes thought he gained the force she lost; but this may have been a whim, very probably. [6]
- After the autopsy the authorities said evidence was unnecessary, and--" "You arranged that, probably? [11]
- The letter was sent to one of our ladies, who is a Sunday-school teacher,--sent either by Williams himself, or the chaplain of the State's prison, probably. [5]
- He would be rich by and by, very probably. [6]
- Only a station probably. [5]
- Dressed appropriately for parts for which he is fitted, he will act well enough, probably. [4]
- This swindle has in some cases been repeated once or twice on the same victim in the course of the same month--but the public treasury was no additionally enriched by it, probably. [5]
- Here comes a gray horse drawing a buggy with two men,--cattle buyers, probably. [4]
Short sentences using probably
- It was probably the rest. [5]
- Was this probably the drawing-room? [5]
- Probably he's consul somewhere. [4]
- The litter-bearers had probably come. [10]
- But probably I'm old-fashioned. [4]
- Probably this evening--or never. [9]
- I shall probably never see! [11]
- Probably it's human nature. [4]
- Alone, probably, like me. [14]
- He probably comes from Washington. [5]
Sentences containing probably two or more times
- Probably she will take both hunting with her, for, though a kind, fair-minded woman, she loves the chase, and as both have finished their work, they probably will not be reluctant to go with Daphne. [10]
- Probably these birds are not idiots, and probably they turned back south again after spying out the nakedness of the land; but they have made their sign. [4]
More example sentences with the word probably in them
- But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
- The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
- The difference between your friends the criminals and me is that probably nobody will ever be able to catch me out. [11]
- His worst enemy, your brother, would probably sacrifice himself for his welfare sooner than I. [10]
- Because you are young yourself, and can still cope with the bear and wild boar, you like the motto, which will probably lead to new wars, and thereby to fresh renown. [10]
- But I believe you'll find he left for the capital on the eleven o'clock, and if you take the trouble to inquire from Bedding you will probably learn that the Throne Room is bespoken for the session. [9]
- If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
- I am telling you something for your own good--which you probably know already. [9]
- I dare say you meant no harm, and perhaps you will not now be able to understand why I was so grieved at what you will probably deem such a trifle; but grieved I was, and indignant too. [14]
- Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
- His regard for you is probably unchanged, but the interests he has at stake are too large to admit of sentiment as a factor. [9]
- I will reward you for it with the only thing that the daughter of the wealthy Krates cannot purchase, yet which she probably rates at no low value--the love of her royal friend. [10]
- After all, as you are a gentleman or a lady, you will probably select gentlemen for your bodily and spiritual advisers, and then all will be right. [6]
- She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
- The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
- How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
- Moreover, my conviction would probably deprive him for six whole afternoons of my company, on which he was more or less dependent. [9]
- Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. [1]
- And the traveler would probably be right, so far as he is concerned. [4]
- Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
- Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
- When the outer world came to him, perhaps he had about as much to give to it as to receive from it; probably more, in his own estimation; for there is no conceit like that of isolation. [4]
- Here also, as Wolf himself had probably experienced, there had been no lack of inclination toward the Lutheran doctrine. [10]
- It was probably within an hour of midnight. [10]
- Gazing into vacancy with wild eyes and chattering teeth, she tried to make cakes and mould dumplings out of the snow, which she probably took for flour. [10]
- You came hither with the assurance of your favour; but the flattering words of promise which you bestowed upon the unhappy woman were probably only the drops of poppy-juice given to soothe the ravings of fever. [10]
- He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his own canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his descent. [1]
- If they meet with men who are doubtful as to the man they will support, such voters should be designated in separate lines, with the name of the man they will probably support. [7]
- He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife, who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at the time of the shipwreck. [4]
- Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only. [10]
- His attack on Willis very probably did him good; he needed a little discipline, and though he got it too unsparingly, some cautions came with it which were worth the stripes he had to smart under. [6]
- The colony was willing to spare both these men, and probably Newport it was who decided they should go. [4]
- It probably never will; but for all that, there are many shy natures which will recognize tendencies in themselves in the direction of my unhappy susceptibility. [6]
- The latter opinion will probably prevail, for it has nature on its side, and the course of history, and the imagination. [4]
- This constitutional question will probably never be better settled than it is, until it shall pass under judicial consideration; but I do think no man who is clear on the questions of expediency need feel his conscience much pricked upon this. [7]
- A Mr. Lewis will probably follow you with something from me on this subject, but do not wait for him. [7]
- Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
- As the day will probably come when every man in Hartford will live in his own mammoth, five-story granite insurance building, it may not be unreasonable to expect that every man will sport his own Gothic church. [4]
- Even the reformers will hardly insist upon two Presidents in order to carry out the equality idea, so that we are probably anticipating difficulties that will not occur in practice. [4]
- In time man will exterminate the rest of the wild creatures of Australia, but this one will probably survive, for man is his friend and lets him alone. [5]
- No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
- They probably never will be," I added. [9]
- In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
- Suddenly the wolf's whole physiognomy changed: she shuddered, seeing what she had probably never seen before--human eyes fixed upon her--and turning her head a little toward Rostov, she paused. [2]
- No one knew who started it, but it probably was Billy Bagshot, who had had more than a double portion of drink, and was seized with a desire to celebrate his thanks to Connor thus. [11]
- The great lady, who probably remembered having directed Heinz's attention to Eva at the dance, understood very clearly that they could not fail to attract each other. [10]
- According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
- The old postmaster who found fault with Miss "Lulu's" designation would probably have quarrelled with this address, if it had come under his eye. [6]
- The severe suffering which has darkened so large a portion of my life has been attributed to this fracture, but the idea is probably incorrect; otherwise the consequences would have appeared earlier. [10]
- I asked her where she got it, and she said it came out of the woods and followed her; and she said it probably hadn't any mother or any friends and she was going to take it home and take care of it. [5]
- For the source whence the Thug tales mainly came was a Government Report, and without doubt was not republished in America; it was probably never even seen there. [5]
- Joan probably knows what is in him better than we do. [5]
- You probably know what I have done for the town, and that I'm the biggest taxpayer, and an all-the-year-round resident. [9]
- He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident. [4]
- He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
- But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
- The busiest hours were probably from 10 till 1. [10]
- The aristocratic travellers were probably cleansing themselves from the dust of the road before they entered the taproom. [10]
- I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. [5]
- If the coach were full of passengers, two good blankets would probably be sufficient. [5]
- If Jean Jacques went down, he probably would not go alone. [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]
- In that case we should probably have defended the Shevardino Redoubt--our left flank--still more obstinately. [2]
- At that time we shall probably have a hundred millions of people to share the burden, instead of thirty-one millions as now. [7]
- An hour later we met General Harris on the road, with two or three people in his company--his staff, probably, but we could not tell; none of them was in uniform; uniforms had not come into vogue among us yet. [5]
- No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
- The fact that we got along as well as we did was probably due to the orthodox teaching with which we had been inoculated,--to the effect that matrimony was a moral trial, a shaking-down process. [9]
- The valley which we followed down probably owes its celebrity to the uncommon phenomena of occasional naked rocks and precipices. [4]
- Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
- And probably there was, though he himself had never yet had a chance to find it out. [4]
- The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
- His chief object was to inspire the Arab with confidence, since he was probably the only man outside Selamlik's palace who knew the thing as yet. [11]
- The city guard was soon followed by a troop of horse, which probably belonged to the Emperor's train. [10]
- The young Seigneur was serious enough about it, and more than once, irritated and perturbed, he sought Madame Chalice; but she gave him no encouragement, remarking coldly that Monsieur Valmond probably knew very well what he was doing, and was weighing all consequences. [11]
- That hired man was probably regarded with suspicion by the family to the end of his days, and if he had been accused of robbing, they would have believed him guilty. [4]
- I think I was probably one of his first patients, and that he naturally made the most of me. [6]
- The forum Hadriani was probably located near Voorburg. [10]
- At bottom he was probably fond of it, but he was always able to conceal it. [5]
- His daughter's presence was probably due to that of the guests quartered in his home, especially Cordula, whom, since she disturbed the peace of his quiet household night after night, he regarded as the personification of restlessness and reckless freedom. [10]
- The University's mind was probably already made up before the Articles were laid before it; yet it took it from the fifth to the eighteenth to produce its verdict. [5]
- Yes, probably he was insane from her point of view. [9]
- The King's flag was flying from the roof of one of the cottages, and His Majesty was probably within. [5]
- One of these was Curie, now of London, whose works are on the counters of some of our bookstores, and probably in the hands of some of my audience. [3]
- Next morning word was brought that Phips was coming steadily up, and would probably arrive that day. [11]
- All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
- Probably, should the war continue for another year, that amount may be increased by not far from $500,000,000. [7]
- While I was wandering abroad he was deposed from his office, and would probably have died in prison, if a worthy man had not assisted him to save his honor and his liberty. [10]
- They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
- They all, probably, voted for it. [7]
- The doctor's father visited his house; but you probably know all this? [10]
- The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
- He probably thought very well of the book, an opinion shared by Bliss, but it is unlikely that either of them realized that it was to become a permanent classic, and the best selling book of travel for at least fifty years. [5]
- He could also very probably learn some facts about Elsie. [6]
- There is a very old and familiar story, accompanied by a feeble jest, which most of my readers may probably enough have met with in Joe Miller or elsewhere. [6]
- These, it is useless to say, were probably not the "barnacle geese" which the nautical travelers used to find, and picture growing upon bushes and dropping from the eggs, when they were ripe, full-fledged into the water. [4]
- For writing we used exclusively goose-quills, for though steel pens were invented soon after I was born, they were probably very imperfect; and, moreover, had to combat a violent prejudice, for at the first school we attended we were strictly forbidden to use them. [10]
- This will probably use time as advantageously as you can. [7]
- The horse backed us into the ditch, and would probably have backed himself into the wagon, if I had continued. [4]
- It probably lodged upon some inaccessible shelf in the face of the mighty precipice. [5]
- On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
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