How to Use maybe in a Sentence

maybe

1 of 2 adverb

• In time, maybe this will change.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• Who knows… maybe in the next life.
  — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
• For some fans, maybe that’ll be enough.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
• So maybe that math might bring more peace.
  — Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
• Then maybe that would help me in my faith.
  — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
• There’s some good in it, maybe some bad in it.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
• So maybe there will be some things that need to be fixed.
  — NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
• But who knows, maybe their dream one day will come true.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
• But maybe the truth was more nuanced.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
• Selfish is maybe a strong word.
  — Patrick McEnroe, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Or maybe that was someone else.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• But maybe at least the duty fees?
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
• Oh, and maybe swap out your modem.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2026
• Drop hedging words like just or maybe.
  — Joyce Marter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• But maybe these are the wrong questions.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• And maybe Jake got to Alex first.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
• And maybe that starts the wheels turning.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
• And maybe even if they aren't allowed.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
• And maybe that’s half the battle.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
• Or maybe there’s something in the wall?
  — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
• So maybe the film is your rearview mirror?
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• And maybe that was her way of keeping them sane.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
• So maybe this will be a chance to have a — a new, clean start.
  — NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
• In the end, maybe that’s all that matters.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• All told, maybe seven or eight months.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
• So maybe the third glance is indeed the charm.
  — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• Gavi maybe could start training with the team.
  — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• The idea of maybe going back part-time comes up.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
• Some people in that sense maybe don't care.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
• Let’s see — maybe some other places.
  — Maria Bamford, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026

maybe

2 of 2 noun

• That's still one too many maybes when $50 million is at stake.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• There are too many maybes involved and the cost to taxpayers is too high.
  — Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• What was left in the West was a collection of maybes or could-have-beens.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• This is the season of second guessing on the left, a time of what-ifs and maybes.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2024
• There are a lot of ifs and maybes, but his desire to play with the Rangers isn’t either.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 24 Dec. 2017
• The Browns have a win-now defense and a bunch of maybes on the offensive side.
  — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 5 May 2026
• 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
• But panicking, or fretting over what ifs and maybes several months down the road, is pointless.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
• There’s no ifs, buts or maybes, Saoirse is one of the greatest actors of her generation.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
• That’s another $263 million for three maybes.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2026
• 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
• Those are three maybes for a team that had the luxury of depending on Kevin Zeitler the last three seasons.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
• That is a lot of maybes in exchange for a three-time all-star and 2017 all-NBA player.
  — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• With enough maybes, investors won’t have to worry about prosaic matters like Lyft stealing away riders and drivers.
  — Owen Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• But a sleight of hand is at work; the maybes of one chapter become the assumptions of the next, and at times contrary evidence is entirely ignored.
  — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
• That’s a lot of ifs, maybes and calculations, something that few people in any corner wish to have more of in a program that is already confounding.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Don’t rely on maybes or the remote possibilities others suggest.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Imagine minimizing ad spend on maybes and maximizing definitive fans.
  — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• That December, the TSO called her about performing her hits with the venerable institution, and there were no maybes.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 18 June 2017