maybe

Example Sentences

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Arriving in Italy as gold-medal favourites, the British quartet have lost four of their eight matches in a round-robin stage full of maybes and might have beens.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Maybe everything turns out fine, but there’s a string of other maybes where it doesn’t.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

They are not bills of doubts, or bills of exceptions, or bills of maybes, or bills of questions.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022

They’ve been demanding immediate action, not plans and studies and maybes.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2021

We rise on our yeses and maybes, Then fall on our noes and our buts.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner