Sentence examples for could not very from inspiring English sources

Lycos could not very effectively extend its reach into the old-line world.

He could not very well ring, or knock, for the house was in darkness.

The Sudanese Mahdi could not very well charter a steamship and ram it into the houses of Parliament.

He could not very easily imagine himself living outside America, and his love of nation had an authentic plainness to it.

But such a service, held under atheist auspices, could not very well attack a deity who is, under the Association's very house rules, nonexistent.

"[Third World women] noted that they could not very well worry about other matters when their children were dying from thirst, hunger or war," wrote Azizah al-Hibri, a law professor and scholar of Muslim women's rights.

"I couldn't very well avoid it".

"I couldn't very well despise them, could I?" Nick responds.

But I'd promised to do the stunt, so I couldn't very well back out".

"But, you know, it was forty-one degrees outside, so I couldn't very well cancel".

I couldn't very well claim to be painting, could I?