noun
definition
An uncertainty.
adverb
definition
Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty.
example
Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
definition
By chance.
Examples of perhaps in a Sentence
Perhaps it was a foolish thing to do.
Perhaps we could help you to work it out.
But perhaps they may do it!
Perhaps he will do well with you.
Perhaps I'll move further east and see if the plucking is better when the weather is cooler.
Perhaps it's enough to put me to sleep.
They say he is hunting in the woods, and perhaps will ride out this way.
Perhaps it was the result of long association with the blind.
Perhaps you did not like it?
Perhaps I should secure some company for my lonely hours, once I travel.
Perhaps I should shed a few pounds.
Perhaps the soldiers had given up their plan.
One man, perhaps, if he has got enough, will be satisfied to sit all day with his back to the fire and his belly to the table, by George!
Perhaps I can make other arrangements.
Now I am as happy as the little birds, because I can speak and perhaps I shall sing too.
By doing this, we will come to understand those conditions better and perhaps prevent them.
Or perhaps the system won't ask you.
What about her feelings for him – perhaps gratitude?
Perhaps it requires musical ability or style or sassiness.
Perhaps the time was wrong.
Perhaps people would be better in a great many ways, for they could not fight as they do now.
Perhaps this is only a rumor.
Perhaps that was the answer.
Perhaps the wolf was waiting to spring upon him.
So these doctors were perhaps just as brilliant as those who have come since.
We would perform this chore one after the other for a total of perhaps fifteen minutes.
Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.
Then, perhaps, my own thoughts and experiences will come to the surface.
Perhaps I'll come and sit with you at supper.
Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one replied, and the four simply looked at one another.
Perhaps being forthright was the best course of action.
Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Perhaps it's the state of affairs?
It was written out of my heart, and perhaps that is why it met a sympathetic response in other hearts.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
The handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed all her attention.
Perhaps he came yesterday and I have forgotten it.
Perhaps in time when she feels more secure she'll open up.
Perhaps they both were human after all.
An investigator, pledging himself to no beliefs - even perhaps one who definitely disbelieves and rejects theism - may yet interest himself in tracking out the psychology of religion.
But despite her grief, or perhaps just because of it, she took on herself all the difficult work of directing the storing and packing of their things and was busy for whole days.
Perhaps it was just the Cossack, Likhachev, who was sitting under the wagon, but it might be the kindest, bravest, most wonderful, most splendid man in the world, whom no one knew of.
But perhaps it's music of my own.
Perhaps your mind remembered something you read?
You think perhaps the FBI is behind it?
No, but perhaps I can help.
Frank led me down a long corridor to a large conference room filled with perhaps thirty intent individuals, standing and sitting, some taking notes, others with few buried faces in computer screens.
Joseph, smiling for the first time in Dean's memory, said he and Ginger planned to walk about town and perhaps hike up to the nearby Box Canyon waterfall.
Or perhaps the theater props were kept somewhere just before the auction— after they were hauled out of the storage quarters.