How to use "possibility" in a sentence
Sentences
Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?
Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes were murdered near Jewish clubs, and the police were very nervous about the possibility of anti-Jewish disturbances
Either possibility was unacceptable.
She refused to consider any other possibility because the alternatives were too frightening.
Every player at the table groaned, and they all had comments to make about the unlikely possibility that they might win anything from this dealer.
This was a new thought: the possibility that his ultimate goal was to do something worse than torment and scare her.
The possibility of what she was going to suggest was remote.
"Won't you even consider the possibility that he's alive?"
Such a possibility scared the hell out of Elliot
Yet now she was seriously considering the possibility that her dreams had some otherworldly significance
While Elliot drove, he told Tina what had happened at his house: the two thugs, their interest in the possibility of Danny's grave being reopened, their admission that they worked for some government agency, the hypodermic syringes...
That would be even more unlikely than the possibility that Danny did it."
The only thing that scared her now was the possibility that they might find Danny - and then be unable to rescue him
"And there's always the possibility I'll misjudge the terrain in the dark and ram us right into the side of a hill."
The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found
The end of all life, which is a distant possibility for us, is an immediate problem for the Martians.
Wherever there was a possibility of guns being hidden, they fired a cylinder of Black Smoke at them, and where the guns could be seen they used the Heat-Ray.
I believed in his idea of the future and in the possibility of his plans
A question of more serious interest is the possibility of another attack from the Martians
The possibility of the other man actually coming to fetch her - oh well