MAY in a Sentence

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404 example sentences for MAY, such as:
1. What may be the result I know not.
2. We may have to take military action.
3. We may speak further of it hereafter.
4. Action may not always bring happines.
5. These drugs may affect your sex drive.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAY
may
 n.  thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America
 n.  the month following April and preceding June
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  But you have a husband and lovely children; you may be happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  But I journey towards England, and I may there find consolation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
9  As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  We may speak further of it hereafter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
11  She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  What may be the result I know not.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
13  As concerns the good which I may appear to do, I have no faith in it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
14  The change may be for good or ill, and is partly, perhaps, for both.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
15  The reader may choose among these theories.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  Directors may be tempted to act in their own self-interest.
2  Action may not always bring happines.
3  We may have to take military action.
4  Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
5  An ability may atrophy if it is not used.
6  The administration may try to reflate the economy next year.
7  An adult cat may produce kittens three times a year.
8  The drug may affect your powers of concentration.
9  These drugs may affect your sex drive.
10  This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
11  I have some information you may be able to use.
12  He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
13  From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
14  He may be able to prescribe you something for that cough.
15  You may be able to get support from an arts foundation.