maybe

Example Sentences

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“It would be fair to say it was maybe risqué?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

So I will do exactly the same and maybe three times in a row it will happen.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump said.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

What’s more, SpaceX threatens to overshadow just about any other company that might look to IPO later this year, except maybe for ChatGPT owner OpenAI and Claude developer Anthropic.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

At least Berlin could sit by the river, take in the music, and maybe she could forget about how much it was going to hurt, going home, when she would be going home a failure.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith