Sentence for likely | Use likely in a sentence

Examples of likely sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use likely in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for likely.

• Not Likely. (8)
• Am I likely to? (8)
• It is not likely. (16)
• They are not likely to return. (10)
• He is not likely to be revived. (10)
• Is he likely ever to forget that? (8)
• Quite likely she would ask him herself. (9)
• Very likely she had another lover by now. (8)
• Ten thousand a year, and very likely more! (4)
• I think you are very likely right, colonel. (8)
• Not likely for an artist chap to be down here! (8)
• Once acknowledged, it is not likely to recur. (10)
• She cited Ferdinand Laxley as a likely lender. (10)
• Where are they likely to be this time next year? (10)
• He was likely to have done the worse which I suspect. (10)
• My interference was quite as likely to do harm as good. (4)
• Very likely he might have preferred not doing anything. (9)
• I knew it too likely, besides, that all debts were not paid. (10)
• A youthful Antony Dacier would be little likely to escape her toils. (10)
• Sir Reginald is very infirm, and not likely to stand in your way long. (4)
• What could seem less likely ever more to move, and change again to day? (8)
• While Conning remains unattached, Conning is likely to be serviceable. (10)
• Can you suppose that we are likely to run when we see you empty-handed? (10)
• Nay, the gayest rattle-brain is the least likely to escape such a desire. (5)
• I suggested there was nothing more likely, as he must have some amusement. (2)
• If we do so, are we not likely to produce the very evil we are combating? (10)
• He had gone off to Newmarket or Brighton, with that woman as likely as not. (8)
• Irishmen were not likely to be far behind curates in besieging an heiress. (10)
• And the longer they have gone before the more likely he is to receive no blackballs. (8)
• His whim to take up farming was but a bit of sentiment, and about as likely to last. (8)
• On the whole, this was a man whom one would be likely to observe and be observed by. (1)
• It would not be likely to produce that dejection of mind which frequently attended him. (4)
• There was no one, therefore, who could be pointed out as likely to give any news of him. (4)
• It seemed to him very likely that if he asked these men questions they would tell him lies. (9)
• But perhaps there was nothing to confess, even now very likely there was nothing to confess. (8)
• To be kept up for hours, after the family were in bed, by stupid pamphlets was not very likely. (4)
• A jury is likely to take the view that money can hardly compensate for an accusation of that sort. (8)
• Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant. (4)
• Quite likely she had never seen the sea before, and even in her distress could not resist that sight. (8)
• Probably I read the old things over; certainly I kept on with Cervantes, and very likely with Goldsmith. (9)
• True, it was hardly likely that the landing was now unguarded, or, if so, that the boat was still there. (7)
• She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. (4)
• It is, indeed, far more likely that the term of office will be reduced to four years than extended to six. (7)
• Mrs. Nicholas, or some other member of his precious family would be there very likely, prancing up and down. (8)
• Under such circumstances, however, he was not likely to be proof against the temptation of immediate relief. (4)
• Forgivably enough, the author is of all persons the one most likely to be unjust to critics and to criticism. (16)
• I, being a husband, and you not being a wife, the claims of the man may very likely strike us with equal force. (4)
• He told her his name, G. W. Hinkle, and asked whether she would be likely to remember it if they ever met again. (9)
• Sometimes we can tell which impulse is likely to be the most active, and which principle the least restraining. (10)
• They attempted, therefore, likewise, to excuse themselves; the weather was uncertain, and not likely to be good. (4)
• The Squire could not bear being played to, but it was the only command likely to be obeyed that came into his head. (8)
• He will, most likely, give a plunge or two, and perhaps take the rest for a minute; but he will soon know his master. (4)
• They were on, and so it was of no use for young Matthew to say they were likely to bear away a token from the Susan. (10)
• Nor was the scene to which they had been invited likely to inspire the moral confidence that medicines physical fatigue. (7)
• It was bruited last Winter and Spring that she would be here in the season for bathing; so I held it likely we should meet. (10)
• Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match. (4)
• I know quite as much about English as Mr. W. is likely to do, and inherited my grammar, which is the best way of getting it. (14)
• A lively recollection of the prattle of Parisian ladies furnished names and addresses likely to prove invaluable to Clotilde. (10)
• Now lay the floor, unless you design to have one that would be likely to be injured by the weather before you get on the roof. (17)
• He has, in fact, overrun the constable, and my brother Albert says, the constable is very likely to overrun ham, in consequence. (10)
• One who goes on doggedly enduring, doggedly doing his best, must subsist on comfort of a kind that is likely to be black comfort. (10)
• Harry made his way to join his friend Ferdinand, and furnished him with the latest London news not likely to appear in the papers. (10)
• Much more likely it is because there are so few people really poor that the whiners are not enough to keep each other in countenance. (2)
• Only as the great issues of the day are brought home to the average reader is he likely to become keenly interested in their solution. (16)
• To Richard the scenes he witnessed were strange wild pictures, likely if anything to have increased his misanthropy, but for his love. (10)
• He would be very likely, indeed, to break his resolutions in either case, but not so likely in the one as in the other. (9)
• Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her. (4)
• If, however, you think at all, after the curtain has fallen, you are likely to think that the Aventurieres have a case to plead against him. (10)
• After that night, they gave up all attempt to hide their union, going to whatever they wished, whether they were likely to meet people or not. (8)
• The local newspapers stated the facts, but withheld the names of the firms—a consideration they are not likely to show to the ordinary culprit. (16)
• Temporarily the world war has given rise to peculiar problems, none of which, however, seems likely to have permanent effects on our newspapers. (16)
• The name had taken his fancy, not because he had ever driven four-in-hand, or was ever likely to, but because of something distinguished in the sound. (8)
• And if so, further observation assured her Miss Denham was likely to be dangerous far more than professedly attractive persons, enchantresses and the rest. (10)

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