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maybe
[ mey-bee ]
adverb
- perhaps; possibly:
Maybe I'll go too.
noun
- a possibility or uncertainty.
maybe
/ ˈmeɪˌbiː /
adverb
- perhaps
- ( as sentence modifier )
maybe I'll come tomorrow
sentence substitute
- possibly; neither yes nor no
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Example Sentences
“Our first few months we had maybe one client and then we went on The Tyra Banks Show,” says James.
Except for maybe his brainiac wife… but she could do better anyway.
But maybe you have to start somewhere else — with Lamont Waltman Marvin, Monty, his father, the Chief, the old man.
I was out, maybe in the Great Barrier Reef catching black marlin.
Who knew that “we shall overcome” meant “we, the few, shall book covers every decade or so, maybe, sometimes, if we are in style.”
Maybe it didn't feel good to be on the hurricane deck of a good horse once more!
Maybe you never stopped to think that none of our family have necks—so far as you can notice.
Few knew—in fact maybe only one other, and that was her husband—or appreciated how much that false testimony had cost her.
Some time this summer we are going to get up a nice crowd and sail as far as Bar Harbor—maybe.
“Well, Hen knows how to kill snakes, but maybe she is a poor judge of character,” laughed Amy.
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