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Definition of "perhaps" []

  • Maybe; possibly. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "perhaps" in a sentence
  • "I will leave you, Sir, I will fly; there will be enough other children to comfort you in your old age, since my mother lays three times a year; I will go far away and hide my misery from you, and perhaps, ” I added sobbing, “perhaps I shall find, in our neighbor’s garden or in the gutters, some worms or spiders wherewith to support my sad existence."
  • "Here is my duty to Altamaha plain before me; perhaps they ’ll let me help settle the Negro problems there, —perhaps they won’t."
  • "“I might perhaps go to Leipsic while you are in Constance, -- _perhaps_.”"