may

How To Use may In A Sentence

• Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
• Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
• Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
• Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
• By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
• The finishing line may be in sight but the final lap is shaping up to be an epic battle. Times, Sunday Times
• We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
• The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
• Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
• Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.