9736 examples of likely in sentences

" "I guess likely.

Those four will likely be together, see, and I wanna use you for a breastwork sort of.

"The bartender now," went on Racey after a moment, "is he likely to mix into this?" "I dunno," breathed Rack.

Racey had known the Judge for several years, and he was aware that the more indirect the Judge became in his discourse the more important the subject matter was likely to be.

I knew it soon as you didbefore, most likely.

Well, when I had broken the lock and opened the back window and crawled through, I went into the front room where I thought likely the safe would be, and I was just going to strike a match when I heard a snap at the front window as the lock broke.

And as nothing had come off it wasn't any likely he'd got his share.

On the 8th of December the Marshal held a council of war, at Ferry-bridge, to consider of the most effectual means for cutting off the Highlanders on their retreat; and, in this council it was resolved to march directly to Wakefield and Halifax into Lancashire, as the most likely way of intercepting the rebels.

Is it likely that Oglethorpe, at the age of eleven years, was present at Pope's interview with Colonel Cecil?

We were well provisioned, and Dodd,he was the cook,Dodd made about as fair coffee as you're likely to find in the galley of a trader.

He was surprised, for he knew the door to be a strong heavy door of walnut wood, not likely to swing to even in a wind.

Moreover, wherever the cliffs seemed likely to afford a means of ascent Shere Ali had directed the water-channels, and since the nights were frosty these points were draped with ice as smooth as glass.

If he had been sent to Ajmere instead of to England, if he and Linforth had not crossed the Meije to La Grave in Dauphiné, if a necklace of pearls he had offered had not been acceptedvery likely at this very moment he might be reigning in Chiltistan, trusted and supported by the Indian Government, a helpful friend gratefully recognised.

It was that which brought his father here, in the beginning, and there is no other inn save this for miles up and down the border where he can tarry; but it is likely that he will sooner lie out in the fields than sleep under this roof, because I am here.

"Well, likely he may, if thou prove not too heavy a load," retorted the filial Jeanne.

He is more likely to be heard clattering up bare stairs in search of old companions.

The commission was then given to Michelozzo, Donatello's partner, and to Luca della Robbia, but it seems likely that Luca did nearly all.

It is perfectly true that Germany did not understand, and, as seems likely in the light of innumerable other atrocities, never will understand, the psychology of civilised peoples; she has never shown any signs up till now, at any rate, of 'having got the hang of it' at all.

I have some arrangements with Murray, which are likely to prove more profitable than any former speculations ...

Lord Byron called upon me, merely to let off the raptures of the Prince respecting you, thinking, as he said, that if I were likely to have occasion to write to you, it might not be ungrateful for you to hear of his praises.

They were most likely imitated from the popular ballads.

Peaceable citizens of the United States were not likely to be found in a vessel so employed at such a place and in such a juncture, and if they were there their presence, especially unknown as it was to the captors, could not prevent, in law or reason, this necessary act of self-defense.

The serious embarrassments likely to arise from a longer continuance of the present state of things induces me respectfully to invite the earliest attention of Congress to the subject which may be consistent with a due regard to other public interests.

These planters also argue, from the great willingness of the apprentices now to work for money, during their own time, that they will not be likely to relinquish labor when they are to get wages for the whole time.

But why came they at all, if Emancipated industry is, or is likely to be, unsuccessful?In

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