Sentence examples for both things could be from inspiring English sources

Both things could be true.

The dog could be dehydrated, it could be having stomach pains, and both of those things could be signs for some serious illnesses or sickness.

These are positions that just two years ago would have made you a crank or a dreamer, but the combination of global crisis and a properly, openly rightwing government has revivified both the sense that things could be better, and the awareness that we can't hang around and wait for the grown-ups to do it.

Things could be better.

Things could be much worse.

This year things could be different.

Things could be worse, though.

Yet things could be worse.

But things could be changing.

But things could be worse.

Perhaps things could be worse.