How to Use might/may as well in a Sentence

might/may as well

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  • We’re stuck with it, though, so might as well go with the pterosaur flow.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • We’re stuck with it, though, so might as well go with the pterosaur flow.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 July 2025
  • But the play might as well be staged in the lobby of a grand hotel.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • His long melancholy asides to friends might as well be paragraphs on a page.
    Hazlitt, 10 July 2024
  • Heavy, ample, plump, tubby—these might as well be curse words.
    TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And those who haven't read his other work yet might as well order the whole set.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 July 2025
  • Her win is so certain that this might as well be the free space on your bingo card.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • For many Israelis, the two buildings might as well be worlds apart.
    Dan Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • The defensive line might as well have been wearing roller skates.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • As a result, there might as well have been a turnstile to and from the head coach’s office.
    Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The private estate sits on two acres, which may as well be a million on the island.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2024
  • Of course, a decade ago may as well be a lifetime ago, as far as the media business is concerned.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Sunday’s 7-4 defeat against the Dodgers might as well have been one, too.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The saying may as well apply to the form of the bio-musical itself.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour might as well be the new red carpet.
    Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Chargers might as well ask Bosa to take a pay cut for a second straight season.
    Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The world isn't perfect, and a lot of teams want arms at this time of year, but Cashman might as well shoot for the moon.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
  • When the good news came, there were about 15 hours until his tee time — which for an alternate might as well be a month.
    Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2025
  • But for Nexstar, the numbers may as well be akin to the Super Bowl.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • So the Sox might as well relax and play without fear the rest of the season, with nothing to lose but their lunch.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • By the time Francis exited, the crowd might as well have been on top of him, encircling the mound.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • The freaks and me may as well have been wired in a direct feed from the Marshalls, so pure and raw is the group’s transfer of madness.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • David Peterson, the workhorse of the staff, went six Friday night, which, to the Mets, might as well be about eight.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
  • If the rest of the country — hell, the rest of the world — is going to make Florida the punchline, then those who call it home might as well be in on the joke.
    Patricia Mazzei Jason Andrew, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And anyway, given the anemic state of mainstream modern rock in 2024, the band might as well be the Rolling Stones at this point.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The Panthers might as well have been the high school homecoming game for the other 31 NFL teams for most of the past seven years.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2025

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