Examples of perchance in a Sentence
“To sleep: perchance to dream…”
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Shakespeare, Hamlet
perchance he is playing the devil's advocate, and the opinions he has expressed are not actually his own
Shakespeare, Hamlet
perchance he is playing the devil's advocate, and the opinions he has expressed are not actually his own
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Because any driver worth their salt would figure this out and likely after perchance one time falling into this bit of a roadway trap, would avoid going that way entirely.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections?
—Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017
To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos.
—Gray Chapman, SELF, 27 Mar. 2019
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections?
—Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017
To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos.
—Gray Chapman, SELF, 27 Mar. 2019
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“Perchance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perchance. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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perchance
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per·chance
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