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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