think probable

Example Sentences

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Should the Zulus attack us, which I don’t think probable, I will call you.

From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I am much delighted and instructed by the hypothesis, which I think probable, that our Lord in repeating Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani, really recited the whole or a large part of the 22d Psalm.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

That the tradition is correct, or approximately so, I think probable, for towards the end of March would be the suitable time for the barbarians to set themselves in motion for the invasion of Italy.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

In the case of a demise, which there is to-day more reason to think probable than there has been for several days past, we shall feel ourselves considerably embarrassed.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

That her hesitation sprang from the mere dislike of leaving her sister so suddenly, or that she had sacrificed her life's happiness to any childish idea of decorum, I did not think probable.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine