How to use "perhaps" in a sentence

'This is a very strange place - so perhaps I can.'

Or perhaps I'll get smaller

'Perhaps - perhaps you like dogs? There's a very nice little dog near our house

Then she thought, 'I'll eat it and perhaps I'll get smaller again

'I'll eat some mushrooms and perhaps I'll get bigger again.'

'Well, perhaps it's not difficult for you, but it is for me,' said Alice.

'It looks kind, but perhaps it will get angry

She thought, 'I won't speak to it before it has its ears - or perhaps one ear.'

I thought perhaps they were there to welcome us, but I was wrong

'It's an old number,' he said, 'but perhaps she's still there.'

And I think perhaps I changed, too

I was worried that perhaps -'

The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself

Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet

She had, the impression he was over forty and perhaps foreign.

Then the first man shouted 'Lipski', perhaps at Schwartz, perhaps at the other man

Israel Schwartz was Jewish, so perhaps when the first man saw him, he shouted 'Lipski' to warn him aggressively to go away

Or perhaps he was warning the man with the pipe that Schwartz was coming

According to the medical evidence Elizabeth Stride died about 12.56 a.m., or even perhaps at 12.58

Perhaps Catherine arrived there at 1.10 a.m., perhaps later

But perhaps he did not write the message

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

He usually killed at weekends, so he was employed, perhaps as a butcher

So perhaps he decided to kill his next victim indoors and chose Mary Kelly, knowing her room was safe.

The man, who was perhaps sixty, had white hair and a serious but friendly-looking face

'If they had had another neighbour,' he thought, 'one who had noticed their suffering, perhaps they could have been rescued by now.'

Forgive me for talking like this, I don't know what I'm saying - perhaps I'm annoying you? But the truth is, I can't live without you.'

So, the problem was solved! The man who threatened his happiness was going to die - was perhaps already dead.

And, perhaps more importantly, no more sharing his bank account with her.

For the summer perhaps." Then she is quiet, and the three men think how polite and gentle she seems

He would be sitting in the restaurant, reading perhaps and not thinking of me

Someone to make him laugh perhaps.

I had thought that perhaps we would walk down to the sea, or sit under the great tree on the lawn.

Yes, perhaps I shall,' I said.

And dangerous too, perhaps.' Maxim stared hard at Favell.

'If he wasn't a friend, perhaps it was someone she was afraid of.'

Why don't you have a holiday, go abroad perhaps

But perhaps they'd been mistaken when they identified the body

Sinatra was in town, at Caesar's Palace, perhaps for the last time, and even at eighty years of age, he generated more excitement in Vegas than any other famous name

Or perhaps this was the first time in all those months that she had been aware of being the object of such interest

She had an almost psychic sense that the perpetrator of this viciousness was in the building now, perhaps on the third floor with her

Or perhaps you'll wind up with even worse dreams."

He may have leaned toward her, or perhaps she tilted toward him

On Sunrise Mountain most of the big, expensive houses featured natural landscaping - which meant rocks, colored stones, and artfully arranged cacti instead of grass, shrubs, and trees - in acknowledgment that man's grip on this portion of the desert was new and perhaps tenuous

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

While we're working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren't we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren't we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?"

His taste for violence would not have been tolerated for long in the old FBI - perhaps not even in the new, thoroughly politicized FBI - or in many other congressionally monitored police agencies

Then, even with Danny jamming the enemy's weapons, she and Elliot would be able to escape only if they slaughtered their way out, and she knew that neither of them had the stomach for that much murder, perhaps not even in self-defense.

And I'm very much afraid we shall never understand, unless perhaps your sister-in-law should..

I cried softly, imagining some horrible re-arrangement of Andre's face - perhaps his eyes where his ears should be, or his mouth at the back of his neck

'I am sorry, but perhaps it was for the best.'

'Very like Colonel Protheroe, but perhaps it was not nonsense,' said Miss Marple

'But perhaps another person.'

Your house is next door to the vicarage so perhaps you saw something that would help us.'

'Yes, but did you hear any other shot - one down in the woods, perhaps?'

'But I thought that perhaps my husband wouldn't stay very long

'Then if a lady - Miss Hartnell perhaps - said that she came here about six o'clock, rang the bell, but got no answer - you would say she was mistaken?'

But perhaps this time he says he will go to the police

'That means that the murderer must have been inside this house - perhaps even had a drink with me.'

But perhaps Dr Stone or Miss Cram had gone that way?

And I suddenly thought that perhaps it did not work.'

But perhaps you know that?'

So perhaps the sneeze that Mrs Price Ridley's servant heard might have been the shot? But anyway, Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding went into the studio together - and then realized, of course, that I would not leave my garden until I saw them come out again!'

'That is why I thought perhaps-'

Although perhaps I wish that he wasn't.'

At most, people believed there might be living things on Mars, perhaps less developed than us and ready to welcome visitors

When I got there, I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the great pit in which the cylinder lay

The crowd around the pit had increased to a couple of hundred people, perhaps

A big, greyish round creature, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder

I turned and ran madly towards the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred metres away

The smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be a better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead seemed to darken as these clouds rose

For a moment, perhaps, I could not clearly understand how I came there

The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I moved perhaps seven metres before I could get under the surface

These Martians moved in a line, perhaps two kilometres apart

My brother had some friends in Chelmsford, and this perhaps made him take the road that ran to the east

To their minds, perhaps, no other machine could be as large as themselves

For the first time, I realized that perhaps the Martians had another purpose, apart from destroying human beings

They had large, round bodies - or perhaps heads - about a metre and a half across

He was fat, red- faced, middle-aged, well-dressed; perhaps earlier he had been important

I thought that if I could attract it in quietly, I would be able, perhaps, to kill and eat it

But perhaps it is not totally strange

'Perhaps, I mean, perhaps that really doesn't matter, does it? But they say he has so many wives and girlfriends.'

Mercy would move back to the house, perhaps find a man who was more - ordinary, let's say

Then, perhaps, he'll break the engagement himself.'

I haven't changed much over the years, but perhaps this man has