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Meaning perhaps meaning
What does perhaps mean?
Definitions in simple English
perhaps
perhaps
Synonyms perhaps synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as perhaps?
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Topics perhaps topics
What do people use perhaps to talk about?
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What words indicate that maybe something may happen or is true?
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What words indicate that the speaker is guessing about a number or amount, but is not certain?
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What words indicate that the speaker is not certain about a suggestion, plan, or idea?
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What words indicate that something is possible?
Examples perhaps examples
How do I use perhaps in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Perhaps he will come.
I am perhaps a bit of a lone wolf.
Perhaps I could handle that.
Perhaps you'd better come with me.
Perhaps you are right, I have been selfish.
Now that you know the truth, perhaps you'll feel better.
Perhaps it will rain in the afternoon.
Perhaps it will snow tomorrow.
It was unbelievably quiet there; perhaps that's why he liked the place so much.
Perhaps he could solve this problem.
Perhaps that's true.
Perhaps I'll like this book.
Perhaps he knows this story.
Perhaps she will come tomorrow.
Perhaps I should take an umbrella with me just in case.
Perhaps you're right.
It will be fine weather tomorrow, perhaps.
Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
I studied for perhaps two hours.
It is hard, perhaps even impossible, to define normal sensory perception.
Perhaps not.
Movie subtitles
In China, Imperial rule was implemented by a Confucian bureaucracy, recruited on the basis of perhaps the most terrifying set of exam papers in all history.
I shall bury the golden plates, father, and perhaps one day someone very special will find them.
With so many stars and so many planets out there, it would truly be a surprise if intelligent life did not exist somewhere in the universe, perhaps even nearby in our own galaxy.
Perhaps you have at last Discovered your true destiny.
Although perhaps with a little more crying than the others.
I have come to avenge thee. and perhaps do some ravaging?
Perhaps I overreacted with the cranberries.
Well, perhaps, but funerals are a personal affair.
I thought maybe she was a singer, perhaps in town for the karaoke festival, but that's next month and the organisers don't recognise her from their line-up.
Perhaps he could shed some light.
I slept late - perhaps 9 - showered and left Wadsworths' around 9.45am.
Perhaps next year you could be Santa.
Perhaps he and whoever nicked a bottle before the parade?
Perhaps they drank the champagne earlier, celebrating poll results, but had an argument.
Perhaps, but it's your generals who lay down the law.
Here and there, perhaps.
Perhaps. But he isn't.
Perhaps you forget that my wife is the Empress' cousin.
Perhaps. Have we any idea how the Blessed are coordinating their attack?
Have you forgotten, perhaps, who it was that allowed you into this room?
Perhaps he was ordered to.
Or perhaps he's just. Out of control, irrational. Paranoid and reactionary.
You crown the one who kidnapped your daughters, who seduced and abused your children, perhaps killed!
Perhaps we have more callers.
Perhaps that you will be delivered from prison?
Perhaps.
Perhaps I'm mistaken.
My client's freedom and, perhaps, her life are at stake.
Meanwhile, as we try to discuss lighter matters during recreation, perhaps I may ask Nurse Franklin the purpose of her manicure?
Perhaps on Guy Fawkes Night.
Perhaps that's the gentleman in question. Telephoning to apologise.
Only I've been making things without sleeves and I thought perhaps I ought to get knitting?
Perhaps he gave a patient a lift home after an extraction.
A rival dog owner, perhaps.
Then perhaps she could stay with you for the night?
Perhaps we could share a martini cocktail.
Perhaps Constable Higgins could accompany me home?
Perhaps Mr. Stoddard discovered who the poisoner was, confronted him, threatened to expose him.
Or perhaps he's just out of control, irrational, paranoid and reactionary.
Perhaps one is for me?
Perhaps the countess can give me some information about the whereabouts of Lt. Armand de Foix?
News and current affairs
First, and perhaps above all, the revolutions of 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union put an end to global bipolarity.
Perhaps that is why mankind has so far managed to survive.
It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change.
Perhaps Eban was too urbane, too much of a scholar and gentleman to be able to make it - in Disraeli's phrase - to the top of the greasy pole.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
Forest clearing, on the other hand, is probably best stopped by economic incentives, perhaps combined with regulatory limits.
Perhaps they are right.
This withdrawal of the US consumer is part (perhaps half) of the process of rebalancing the global economy.
Prior to the crisis, many suspected that the mix of aggregate demand that was supporting high growth was unsustainable, though the problem perhaps seemed too hypothetical to compel collective action.
If they are fully informed of the risks, and are still willing to fly - perhaps the crew has been offered more money, as workers in dangerous occupations often are - should we prevent them from making the decision to fly?
Perhaps most academics, who are at the lower end of the skill and qualification-adjusted income scale, do the same.
In the US, such an agency could have weighed in on the costs and benefits of bailout plans, perhaps helping to end congressional paralysis and steeling nerves to give taxpayers more upside risk.
Perhaps because the regime does not feel as secure as it looks.
Or at least, to consider perhaps a quite different question: where would it be reasonable for the EU to move?
Yugoslavia gave way to Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia; it may perhaps shortly disgorge Kosovo and Montenegro as well.
Many, perhaps most, are under sixteen years of age.
Perhaps most importantly, non-constitutional justice systems, such as sharia, must be monitored and checked, if not prohibited altogether.
If she does, she will be Asia's most powerful woman, perhaps the most powerful in the world, at the end of next year.
The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.