Synonyms
Examples of maybe in a Sentence
Adverb
maybe we can make it to the concert, if we hurry
Recent Examples on the Web
John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Airbnb opened multiple threads with you without closing them, which added to the complexity of this case and maybe delayed your resolution.
—Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Larry doesn’t have time for that, and unleashes what is essentially the maxim for the entire series — and maybe David’s entire career.
—Esther Zuckerman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
The Cougars baseball team is at Cal Poly Pomona this weekend for games Friday-Sunday while the softball team plays a pair of Friday-Saturday doubleheaders at Cal State San Bernardino, maybe an hour’s drive away.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
And maybe that's why my stories in general have a sort of redeeming quality.
—Marcela Davison Aviles, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
People should look for an extended, active corona with more spikes and maybe some curls in it, keeping an eye out for prominences, pink explosions of plasma that leap off the sun’s surface and are pulled back by the sun’s magnetic field, and streamers coming off the sun.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
That could send its ultimate selling price soaring up, up and away, making Clark Kent the new six (or maybe seven or eight) million-dollar man.
—Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
To treat patients faster, maybe doctors should go directly to the scene.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 July 2023
Imagine minimizing ad spend on maybes and maximizing definitive fans.
—Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
But panicking, or fretting over what ifs and maybes several months down the road, is pointless.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
Clutching his whip count of yeses, noes and maybes, Mr. McConnell appeared to be suggesting that undecided senators needed to make up their minds and join the majority of their colleagues in opposing witnesses.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
Maybe Apple will redesign the keyboard or maybe Intel will finally deliver a better processor or maybe, well, there are a lot of maybes.
—Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 17 July 2019
But that’s a lot of maybes to receive in return for an MVP finalist and perennial DPOY candidate.
—Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 6 July 2019
My heart accelerated through all the scenes of waiting, by the phone and at the doctor's office, the shots, the treatment plans, the maybe, maybe, maybes, and sorry, sorry, sorrys.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2018
But those maybes had always been accompanied by a long list of reasons why a virus wouldn't work.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
Adverb
Texas is first up EAGLE PASS, Texas − Maverick County International Airport in Eagle Pass, Texas, usually sees maybe three private planes a day.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Airbnb opened multiple threads with you without closing them, which added to the complexity of this case and maybe delayed your resolution.
—Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Larry doesn’t have time for that, and unleashes what is essentially the maxim for the entire series — and maybe David’s entire career.
—Esther Zuckerman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
The Cougars baseball team is at Cal Poly Pomona this weekend for games Friday-Sunday while the softball team plays a pair of Friday-Saturday doubleheaders at Cal State San Bernardino, maybe an hour’s drive away.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
And maybe that's why my stories in general have a sort of redeeming quality.
—Marcela Davison Aviles, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
People should look for an extended, active corona with more spikes and maybe some curls in it, keeping an eye out for prominences, pink explosions of plasma that leap off the sun’s surface and are pulled back by the sun’s magnetic field, and streamers coming off the sun.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
That could send its ultimate selling price soaring up, up and away, making Clark Kent the new six (or maybe seven or eight) million-dollar man.
—Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
To treat patients faster, maybe doctors should go directly to the scene.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Noun
Line up all of those maybes—improbable as each one is—and maybe Grusch has a compelling story to tell.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 July 2023
Imagine minimizing ad spend on maybes and maximizing definitive fans.
—Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
But panicking, or fretting over what ifs and maybes several months down the road, is pointless.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
Clutching his whip count of yeses, noes and maybes, Mr. McConnell appeared to be suggesting that undecided senators needed to make up their minds and join the majority of their colleagues in opposing witnesses.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
Maybe Apple will redesign the keyboard or maybe Intel will finally deliver a better processor or maybe, well, there are a lot of maybes.
—Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 17 July 2019
But that’s a lot of maybes to receive in return for an MVP finalist and perennial DPOY candidate.
—Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 6 July 2019
My heart accelerated through all the scenes of waiting, by the phone and at the doctor's office, the shots, the treatment plans, the maybe, maybe, maybes, and sorry, sorry, sorrys.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2018
But those maybes had always been accompanied by a long list of reasons why a virus wouldn't work.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
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“Maybe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maybe. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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