perchance

Example Sentences

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More than a few times, Davis said, the author was stopped by readers who asked whether, perchance, he knew their grandfather or uncle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2022

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

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2021

“Oh happy people of the future, who have not known these miseries and perchance will class our testimony with the fables.”

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2020

The same goes for when we most likely do or perchance do not delete said missives at our convenience.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2019

It was Twelfthmoon now, and winter in Zosma, the Eder frozen over, and young men perchance composing poems to girls they’d met ice-skating.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor