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
• But the play might as well be staged in the lobby of a grand hotel.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• The men might as well get used to being the opening act.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• The steep shale slide might as well have been Mount Everest.
  — Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
• For me, he might as well have been backlit with a smoke.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
• Fire might as well be spouting from the tips of his fingers.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• But for Nexstar, the numbers may as well be akin to the Super Bowl.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• For many Israelis, the two buildings might as well be worlds apart.
  — Dan Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• Sunday’s 7-4 defeat against the Dodgers might as well have been one, too.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour might as well be the new red carpet.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• His long melancholy asides to friends might as well be paragraphs on a page.
  — Hazlitt, 10 July 2024
• 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
• That statement might as well have doubled as a sales pitch.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
• 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 saying may as well apply to the form of the bio-musical itself.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
• Opening day of the season may as well have been Christmas.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
• So, in many cases, they might as well already be shut down.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The private estate sits on two acres, which may as well be a million on the island.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2024
• For some Swifties, their favorite singer might as well have endorsed Trump.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• The defensive line might as well have been wearing roller skates.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Heavy, ample, plump, tubby—these might as well be curse words.
  — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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 brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Players are cutting, the ball is moving, and when the 3-point shooters step up and fire away, the rim might as well look as big as a bathtub.
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 25 May 2025
• If the dialogue is already written for you in a bad review, might as well take it.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 June 2025