LIKELY in a Sentence

Learn LIKELY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for LIKELY, such as:

1. All that I gave was likely to consider as negligible.
2. Each life likely is one full and the delightful fruit.
3. I may have wanted more than she was likely to have got.
4. There was discussion about the fire and its likely cause.
5. This issue looks likely to continue to vex the government.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIKELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
likely
 a.  has a good chance of being the case or of coming about
 a.  expected to become or be; in prospect
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "They would be likely to agree on some meeting-place beforehand," remarked Holmes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in spite o all their praying and preaching.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
3  I'm on the brink of the grave, and I am not likely to lie to you.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  If I die to-morrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5  On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would be likely to draw attention to himself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  Besides, very likely there would be a Grand Ensemble, round the Union Jack, to end with.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
7  To a more agreeable adviser, or one from whom he would be more likely to learn, Mr. Harthouse could never be recommended.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
8  I may have wanted more than she was likely to have got.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
9  Thou art right," said Gurth; "it were ill that Aymer saw the Lady Rowena; and it were worse, it may be, for Cedric to quarrel, as is most likely he would, with this military monk.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Admit him," said Front-de-Boeuf; "most likely he brings us news from his jovial master.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  No; he only said he thought it very likely; and I thought so too.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The Miss Bertrams' admiration of Mr. Crawford was more rapturous than anything which Miss Crawford's habits made her likely to feel.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The most likely outcome may be to subcontract much of the work to an outsider.
17  The company is being forced to reduce staff and I fear I'm a likely candidate.
18  At one point he had seemed a likely candidate to become Prime Minister.
19  The rail strike is likely to cause considerable public inconvenience.
20  His intimacy with Japan makes him the likely choice as ambassador to that country.
21  The client should understand, in broad terms , the likely cost of the case.
22  The government looks likely to go back on its decision to close the mines.
23  All that I gave was likely to consider as negligible.
24  This issue looks likely to continue to vex the government.
25  The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
26  A police officer who takes to crime is likely to be more successful at it than most.
27  Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood.
28  The new director is likely to make major changes in personnel.
29  There was discussion about the fire and its likely cause.
30  Each life likely is one full and the delightful fruit.