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UK
/bɪlˈaɪk/
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ADVERB
-
with considerable certainty; without much doubt
in all likelihood we are headed for war
He is probably out of the country
How To Use belike In A Sentence
- This is belike your foremost associate physically and mentally. This alliance will revel in spending, voyage and adventure. Quite an exciting linkage.
- He is trim, brown-haired, nice-looking for a regular guy; babelike for a scientist. Brian Greene's restaurant at the end of the parallel universe
- (as _Milly_ saith touching the 139th Psalm) to have turned o'er the two leaves together that I might not see this sixth chapter of _Hebrews_: yet did I never see it without a diseaseful creeping feeling, belike, coming o'er me. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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- The pair went to a Picasso display and, to impress her, Harvey told Gloria that he could belike get the artist's autograph.
- Medflies ruin crops when fertile females use their tubelike ovipositors to punch holes in the skin of a ripening fruit or vegetable, then pump their eggs inside.
- The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.
- But she spoke in a fast staccato, so she didn’t come across as babelike. As Husbands Go
- But it was the face, cast belike in copper bronze, which caught and held Mrs. Sayther's fleeting glance. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
- The Romans then, flying to the emperor, desired his aid and succour; but he, belike to pleasure the pope, gathering an army, went rather against the Romans.