How to Use might/may as well in a Sentence
might/may as well
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The Stone Age may as well have been named the Wood Age.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 7 May 2024
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But the play might as well be staged in the lobby of a grand hotel.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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The men might as well get used to being the opening act.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
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The steep shale slide might as well have been Mount Everest.
—Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
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For me, he might as well have been backlit with a smoke.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
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Fire might as well be spouting from the tips of his fingers.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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But for Nexstar, the numbers may as well be akin to the Super Bowl.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
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For many Israelis, the two buildings might as well be worlds apart.
—Dan Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
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Sunday’s 7-4 defeat against the Dodgers might as well have been one, too.
—Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
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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
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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour might as well be the new red carpet.
—Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
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His long melancholy asides to friends might as well be paragraphs on a page.
—Hazlitt, 10 July 2024
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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
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That statement might as well have doubled as a sales pitch.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
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The Chargers might as well ask Bosa to take a pay cut for a second straight season.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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Our front door might as well have been a revolving one.
—Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 11 June 2025
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The saying may as well apply to the form of the bio-musical itself.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Opening day of the season may as well have been Christmas.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
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So, in many cases, they might as well already be shut down.
—CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
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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
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The private estate sits on two acres, which may as well be a million on the island.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2024
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For some Swifties, their favorite singer might as well have endorsed Trump.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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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
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The defensive line might as well have been wearing roller skates.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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Heavy, ample, plump, tubby—these might as well be curse words.
—TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
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Callahan, Leverenz, and O’Brien had just borrowed $12.5 million to buy a store of wine that now might as well be on the moon.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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At this rate, next season’s cast might as well feature someone in Los Angeles who just FaceTimes in.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 25 June 2025
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The facial expressions of the children might as well belong to different centuries.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
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