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If you say that maybe something will happen or that maybe it is true, you mean there is a chance of those things. Maybe someday I'll learn how to drive. Yeah. I thought, you know, maybe if I tried again, it might work. You use maybe when you are not sure about something. Maybe you ought to look at this again. There are, uh, maybe twenty or twenty two people in the group. "Is that the right answer?" "No, maybe not." It's good, maybe even great.

maybe

(= possibly, perhaps, peradventure) by chance perhaps she will call tomorrow we may possibly run into them at the concert it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time

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Simple sentences

Maybe he will be a good teacher.
I don't know why she isn't in my dreams. Maybe she doesn't want to be there in order not to disturb me.
Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but I am truly mesmerized by your beauty.
Maybe he's dead.
Obviously I can translate that, since I strongly believe that everything is translatable, even what is untranslatable; and what the brain cannot translate - maybe the heart can.
Maybe somebody wants that.
I was thinking maybe I could help you.
Maybe I shouldn't be so suspicious.
Maybe you shouldn't eat that.
Maybe they're hungry.
Maybe it's a problem with the carburetor.
Maybe Tom is telling the truth.
Maybe she has other plans?
Maybe I should be ashamed.
Maybe I'll just give up soon and take a nap instead.
Maybe it will be exactly the same for him.
Maybe I ought to expand the memory.
Maybe next time!
Maybe it's about time I started learning to program.
Maybe you'd better come with us.
Maybe you'll succeed.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I'll go, and maybe I won't.
Maybe I will settle down with a woman.
Maybe I'll just wander off on my own.
Maybe he has lots of girlfriends.

Movie subtitles

Maybe he's not the same person?
Maybe.
But maybe there was just a bit too much that was commonplace about the way that Ming China was governed.
Except maybe those nice English clocksl I'm standing here in the heart of the Forbidden City entirely surrounded by clocks.
Hey, maybe we should see if there's anyway I could get transferred someplace a little bit closer to home, like uh.
Yeah yeah! What have we here, maybe?
Um, heh, um, um, look, maybe, maybe sometime Elder Cunningham and I could, could talk to you, maybe tell you a little bit about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
I - Maybe we should have some companionship evaluation time.
Um, I was wondering if maybe uh, the things and stuff you seem to be focusing on are the things and stuff that apply to the reason we are here.
I mean, maybe we should just. say. we had some baptisms.
And in fact, maybe it was like I could almost be a normal person, with a girl who cared about me, who was. hot.
Maybe aliens evolved differently.
Maybe like you, not me.
Maybe I should give up and leave.
Maybe he'll get killed.
France. maybe.
So, after school, maybe we'll, uh. We'll stop by the art store and get you a new sketchbook and, um, some of those.
You know, there's a couple of cops up there, maybe a judge.
Maybe we try something different?
It's astonishing, maybe even perfect.
Maybe all the casual homophobia?
Maybe not forever.
Maybe we can find one?
Maybe you're out of bounds.
Or maybe you're his moped.
I mean, maybe there's a reason he doesn't want anyone to know about it.
Well, maybe if I had a bunch of flying reindeer, then maybe it wouldn't be so hard for me to get the product into the yard.
Maybe you could help me solve a little problem I have.
Maybe to adults it looks like we're just running around, playing whatever we want to, wherever we want to, running all around the yard, willy-nilly without barriers or boundaries.
Maybe they're hoping to find buried treasure someday or something.
But then he sent me this note asking me to meet him, so I started to think maybe he wasn't a jerk.
But then when we met, I started to think, maybe he was a jerk. Again.
Maybe for ever.
Maybe she came here on instinct, like she was looking for Derek. You mean, looking for an Alpha.
Maybe you should tell us.
Peter is his way into, maybe, just one slight advantage of making that happen and being able to get rid of it.
It kind of reveals to Scott that maybe, in the future, they can be allies.
How about maybe he's playing this game that he's a very nice guy, everybody trusts him, just to win the game?
Maybe someone leaked the information.

News and current affairs

Maybe we should trust each other more - but not too much.
Maybe it's no coincidence that Groucho Marx was an American citizen.
Maybe, just maybe, Obama's recent address marks not only the end of this destructive agenda, but also the start of a new era.
High-wage workers in rich countries can expect to see their competitive advantage steadily eroded by competition from capable and fiercely hard-working competitors in Asia, Latin America, and maybe even some day Africa.
Maybe it works, maybe not.
Maybe capitalism works better when skeptics restrain its excesses than when true believers are writing, interpreting, judging, and executing the rules of the game.
Maybe that capitalism works better when it is being held accountable to some external standard than when left to its own devices.
Who knows, maybe the existing development banks will learn something.
Compensation would take the form of retraining programs for personnel, and maybe refinancing of loans taken to finance specialized machinery.
But maybe this image is just a bit too vivid in our imaginations.
Maybe not, but Americans will certainly find global hegemony a lot more expensive if the dollar falls off its perch.
That sounded like a pleasant experience - maybe a learning experience - for young men who would otherwise be idle and unemployed.
They are vulnerable to an Arab Spring (and a British summer) - and maybe to a US autumn that will focus not just on the Murdochs' business, but also on its interplay with politics.
CAMBRIDGE - As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world's central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency.
Maybe they, too, should try holding a few conferences in Zimbabwe, and get a reality check of their own.
Maybe the most important point - and a key difference with the Clintons - is that this experiment begins in an Argentina that suffers from great institutional vulnerability.
Maybe these countries could do even better by adopting a compulsory saving plan, but they are not about to do so.
He receives the Nobel Peace Prize in the hope that maybe he can make next year better.
Maybe there are smarter ways to combat terrorism than expensive wars and ever more homeland security.
Maybe we can tackle climate change better through less costly, more effective technology pushes.
Maybe we will end up helping the world more by focusing on air pollution, education, or the condition of women.

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