Might

//maɪt//

"Might" in a Sentence (32 examples)

It might sound far-fetched, but this is a real problem.

Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.

You never listen. I might as well talk to the wall.

I think I might join you, but I haven't decided yet.

As long as you are here, we might as well begin.

If it were not for your help, I might have failed.

Hearing you sing, people might take you for a girl.

There's no telling what kind of trouble this proposal might stir up. The result is certainly going to be something to see.

I might as well drown as starve.

If you're not careful, you might slip and fall on the icy steps.

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This is the richest, the most powerful country which ever occupied this globe. The might of past empires is little compared to ours. But I do not want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur or extended dominion. I want to be the president who educated young children to the wonders of their world.

Since every nation considers itself right, peace lies in balancing the military mights of the possible rivals.

The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act had abolished slavery completely in the British Empire, and this, along with the fact that the Empire's military and economic might was beginning to pull even further ahead of other nations', thanks in part to the Industrial Revolution, saw the squadron expand to around twenty-five ships (regularly having to be swapped out because of the high incidence of tropical disease)[…]

He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.

He asked me if he might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.

I thought that I might go the next day.

Let's finish this task so that we might go home asap.

In those days, a Briton might be hanged for stealing an egg

The king and queen of Tahiti might not touch the ground anywhere but within their hereditary domains; for the ground on which they trod became sacred.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

With 14 minutes gone Héctor Moreno might have scored, glancing a header too close to Neuer from a free-kick.

You might have warned me about the thunderstorm.

Well, I might go to a party, but I haven't decided yet.

The characterism of an honest man: He looks not to what he might do, but what he should.

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;[…].

I might be in a wheelchair, but I still want to be treated as a lady.

I might play football, but I do know how to read.

"Might I take the last biscuit? I wonder if I might have a little more coffee too." "Yes you may, help yourself.".

Yeah, I think we might need something a bit sturdier.

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