perchance

Example Sentences

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I think I realized something was up when I began wondering if he, perchance, liked guys.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2021

Coronavirus: I hail from pangolin, perchance from bat.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

Mr. Wallace then wondered whether the Senate should waive the filibuster rule with this legislation, if perchance the House happened to pass it.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2018

Her goal is to sleep, not perchance to dream, but to “drown out my thoughts and judgments, since the constant barrage made it hard not to hate everyone and everything.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart?

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya