English example sentences with "might"

Learn how to use might in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked 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.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

He died, so we might live.

We were worried we might miss the train.

We were afraid that we might hurt his feelings.

We set to work with all our might and main.

You might as well wait until Tuesday.

I'd send my kid out on his own for a while if I were you. A few hard knocks at this point might do him some good.

You might have to eat those words a few years from now.

He told me that whatever might happen, he was prepared for it.

The wholesalers might try to back out of the deal.

I said it might rain.

It's raining. You might just as well stay home.

I walked quickly so that I might catch the first train.

That might be the most painful experience in my life.

Had he taken his doctor's advice, he might not have died.

We climbed higher so that we might get a better view.

Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.

The crocodile, which produces only male young in hotter weather, might die out too because there will be no females to breed.

Luciano might have the crowd behind him, but he's still wet behind the ears.

Drive slowly. You might have an accident.

Try as he might, he couldn't get the door open.

With more courage, I might have proposed to Mary.

If he would help you, he might come to you at once.

If it were not for his help, I might fail.

If it had not been for his advice, I might have failed.

If it hadn't been for his help, she might have drowned.

With his support, she might have been elected mayor.

The firm might have lost all its money if it had taken his advice.

If he had enough time, he might have done good work.

If he had worked harder, he might be a rich man now.

Had he known the facts, the accident might have been avoided.

If you had missed that bus, you might not be here now.

If you had not followed the doctor's advice then, you might be ill now.

It might rain tomorrow.

He might come tomorrow.

It might rain before evening.

He might change his mind.

I might have to be very angry with you if you were to come alone.

If it had not been for your help, we might have failed.

A little heavier rain might cause a flood.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

The football game might be called off on account of rain.

Bill got up early in order that he might catch the first train.

She might be seriously ill.

She might not know that we are here.

He might be away at the moment.

John might know something about Mr Black.

She might know the answer.

Something might have happened to her.

He might have lost his way.

It occurred to me that he might be an industrial spy.

It might rain. We'd better take an umbrella.

The pilot hinted that it might be a UFO.

Looks like I might have to burn the midnight oil tonight.

Look as I might, nowhere could I find my lost watch.

I might as well throw my money into the sea as lend it to Tom.

I'm thinking about which college might be best for me.

Anyway, if it just stops raining, then we might be able to go out.

Do you know where I might find small cowboy boots?

Why might he have done that, I wonder?

If the door doesn't fit, you might have to shave off a bit of the wood until it closes properly.

Actually it might be a good idea to start right now.

I might have left it on the table.

After all, it might be imagination.

It might be a bit big but this envelope will do just fine. It's better to be too big than too small.

When I asked whether I might talk with him a moment, he said, "By all means."

You ought to go by taxi, or you might not get there in time.

I might as well die as lead such a life.

I might as well die as marry such a man.

I might as well die as do such a thing.

I might as well starve as do such a thing.

That might have been true.

She said that it might be true.

The problem is not as simple as it might seem at first sight.

The man was obsessed with fear that the secret might be disclosed.

The store might be closed already.

We might otherwise have to reconsider the purchase.

He might at least apologize.

Excuse me, but might I use the phone?

So that through him all man might believe.

Jim suggested that the teacher might be wrong.

He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.

But the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.

Here comes a bus. We might as well take it.

They might pay me more if I could use a computer.

We might as well eat dog food as eat such a dish.

You might not believe what I'm about to tell you, so don't be surprised.

Might I have a look at this?

I might well tell you this.

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

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