How to use "maybe" in a sentence

Until Monday night, maybe? Tuesday morning at the latest.

At first, I think that maybe I am quick enough, but then I hear the snap of the gun and feel the explosion in my back.

"Good Lord, you should leave now before the police get here, and maybe you can still escape," he laughs again, "but I doubt it."

And maybe you want to know what we plan to do with the money.

"I see," he says, "maybe you can tell me your name first

"Then maybe you can tell me why you're here," he suggests.

No, he cannot feel any sympathy for her, but maybe now she can find some rest

On the red steps there is a group of maybe thirty Japanese tourists

He thinks that maybe Nick would know, that Nick would have some advice.

"Well, maybe not pirates, but you should still be careful

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

"Yes, Father, I need somewhere to hide for a few days, a week maybe

"I want to help you, and if you confess all your sins to me, then maybe I can

I'm going to go close the church, then maybe I can find you that bit of food and some other clothes."

Three thousand maybe? What do you think?" But there is no answer.

And maybe he should not

If things get serious, then maybe he can manage if there is just one.

And he pushes through the snow, and he thinks that maybe, if he can get to the sound, he can flee into the mountains and never come back.

The sound of the sirens was still in the distance, and Brandon thought that maybe they were still okay and that maybe they could leave; maybe they could escape together

"There's a family who comes here, maybe three or four times a year

I think she has family here, or maybe she comes from the area

And Owen knew the boy was interested then, and for the first time in a long time he thought that maybe there was something they could do together

Well, maybe when he gets to shoot one.

Sure, he likes films and television and not sports, but maybe this can be their thing

Then maybe in a few years they can start to go for a pint like Owen and his father did.

In the summer maybe, but not now.

There is a snap from behind the trees, and Owen thinks that maybe he should put his gun down, in a bush, nice and carefully like he told Junior to do

And he thinks that maybe next time they should just go to the cinema instead

Or maybe play a computer game or watch television.

But maybe there is another reason for the name of the casino.

For a moment Hank Wynn stops, and maybe there is a second where he believes poor Jimmy Lane

Sarah considers sitting on one of the seats by the wall of the tunnel, but she is so tired that she thinks that maybe she will fall asleep if she rests.

She was maybe a year or two older than Sala and Cham

"Well, I suppose I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, there is still life in the outside world - and maybe someone from that world has found a way across the city boundary."

maybe," said Sala

she thinks maybe it came from her long-lost brother

"Your dad, maybe

"And remember, Sala, maybe there will be something better, one day

I'm just saying - maybe the world out there is not as terrible as the government would like us to believe."

"A future, maybe?"

"But maybe I'd feel differently if I were in love."

We know you can't leave your city, but now I hear that maybe messages can reach you, if you are still alive

She decided to go for a run at the energy center; maybe it would cheer her up

and anyway, maybe she would come back with exciting news for everyone.

They're trying to break down the force field and maybe help some people escape."

maybe they created that letter

And the fruit - well, maybe they found it somewhere in the city

But none of Cham's grandparents were alive, so maybe it wasn't surprising that he found it hard to believe in another world.

"Well, Gran," said Sala, "maybe one day, when Cham comes out of the pod, and they've managed to break through the force field, we really will be able to go together

But maybe they've noticed he's different, too," said Gran

Then maybe they would help us escape across the boundary."

Some of them looked a little stiff and strange, maybe; but most of them seemed perfectly normal

maybe this boy actually was Danny

Although she was bitter and depressed, although - or maybe because - she felt utterly empty and useless, she took the job.

At least a year and a half, maybe two years, had passed since a man had looked at her in quite that fashion

Vivienne wondered if there had been a nuclear test, maybe that was what had shaken things up

And maybe he was coming back, haunting the place.

"Well, maybe you're right

But we can take care of two easily enough, and maybe we'll get lucky and have one boy and one girl

that alone will require a lot more manpower than the police can spare for anything except a murder case, a hot kidnapping, or maybe a narcotics investigation."

maybe I wrote those words on the chalkboard

maybe

maybe Danny is alive."

But maybe Danny didn't die in that accident

"Tina, you know there isn't any maybe about it

Right? Who knows what might make a person like that reveal himself? If he finds out there's going to be an exhumation, maybe he'll react strongly, give himself away

On Sunday, when the exhumation was out of the way, maybe he would fly Tina to Arizona or to Los Angeles for the day.

"If there's no hitch, maybe the father won't ever find out about the exhumation."

"This will take me maybe fifteen or twenty minutes."

Unless maybe..

Or maybe he never actually retired at all

Maybe he's still on the payroll of some spook shop, and maybe the whole plan was for him to pretend to retire and then get elected as a judge here in Vegas, so his bosses would have a friendly courtroom in town."

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

If you're looking for a freelance hit man, someone who deals in carload lots of illegal weapons, maybe a mercenary who can put together a small expeditionary force for an overseas operation - you can find all of them here

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

"But maybe it's not wise to go to the local press

maybe we'll skip the coroner," Elliot said

Or maybe he did know and just didn't give a damn about his ex-wife

Evans turned, and Bruckster said, "I think maybe you dropped this back there."

And maybe he wouldn't have known how to handle Vince

Or maybe it's something else altogether

"Heartbeat's normal, maybe even slightly slower than before

In fact, maybe the thrill wasn't so deep down

And maybe it doesn't even exist

well, maybe Danny will find a way to show us exactly where he is."

I'll hold the pen against the map, and maybe Danny can draw the route for us."

Then maybe I'll be relaxed enough to make this automatic writing work."

If you'd tell me what this is all about, maybe I could help you better."

You're wondering if maybe I've messed with Tina's mind."

"Should I maybe go listen to the news?" Billy Sandstone asked

"Maybe, maybe not," Morgan said

Maybe Danny could prevent the alarms from sounding, and maybe he could not, so Elliot fired once, and the display screen dissolved into thousands of splinters of glass.

I'll be a traitor to my colleagues, maybe

But I think maybe I can

One day maybe he would be standing in a graveyard, before the tombstone of one of his victims, and the person he had killed would reach out to him from beyond and let him see, in some vivid clairvoyant fashion, exactly what death was like

In fact, when you tell your story to the press, maybe you could slant it that way."

If I can make them think that Zachariah was the one who spilled the secrets to you, if I can protect my position here, maybe I'll be promoted and have more influence." He smiled

Perhaps even now they were destroying Berlin or Paris, or maybe they were moving north.

'The Martians will probably make pets of some of them; train them to do tricks - who knows? And some, maybe, they will train to hunt us.'

Handsome, maybe not rich like this man here, but with enough money to afford a fast car

'And maybe he would even agree to get us a new car from abroad

'Not yet, later, maybe

At that time, girls from richer families only learned music, drawing, and maybe a little French and Italian