perhaps
maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today.
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How to use perhaps in a sentence
Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking | M.L. Nestel | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTDemocrats would be mistaken to underestimate Mike Huckabee, perhaps the strongest Republican presidential contender.
perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.
perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
“perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThere is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
Children's Ways | James SullyThose in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe sensation she had communicated to him then she communicated again, this time perhaps more strongly.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensWhen he gets quite large the boy will get tired of having him for a pet, and perhaps bring him back.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard Barnum
British Dictionary definitions for perhaps
/ (pəˈhæps, informal præps) /
possibly; maybe
(as sentence modifier): he'll arrive tomorrow, perhaps; perhaps you'll see him tomorrow
it may happen, be so, etc; maybe
Origin of perhaps
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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