Sentence examples for may have entertained from inspiring English sources

But the airport has very likely mummified whatever ambitions he may have entertained for higher office.

No, it was not Preston Mommsen, their cricket captain, but he may have entertained such thoughts in Hobart when pitched against the mighty Australians.

(Any second thoughts I may have entertained about the latter were put to rest by a couple of wives who approached me in airports to say, simply, "Thank you, senator").

"Fin-de-Siècle Vienna" was not an easy read, especially if you had to look up every other name in an encyclopedia, but its complexity was infectious: you seemed to be catching a glimpse of the inner machinery of modernity, and you may have entertained idle fantasies of writing something like it.

There are good arguments for the former, the more benign scenario, but we need to set policy in a way that reduces the probability of the latter, the more adverse scenario.In January he may have entertained broader thoughts about the resiliency of the American economy.

The British may have entertained certain fantasies about his formal status, when it suited their purposes.

The number of consenting mistresses and prostitutes Mr. Strauss-Kahn may or may not have entertained over the years, and the number of times he attended a high-society swingers' club a stone's throw from the Louvre, are utterly irrelevant to the legal case against him.

Though her six years of living in Roussillon may have left her with "the same attraction to their intractable difference," readers of her account, if this reviewer is an example, will be cured of any faint desire they may ever have entertained to live like a Gypsy.

Smith was overshadowed by higher-wattage comic writers of the time, like S. J. Perelman and James Thurber, but reading his whimsical, nearly plotless tales of human entanglements with blithe spirits cavorting in the material world, one suspects he may not have entertained terribly lofty ambitions anyway.

Although the Laozi may not have entertained a fully developed yin-yang cosmological theory, which took shape during the Han period, it does suggest at one point that natural phenomena are constituted by yin and yang: the "ten thousand things" or myriad creatures, as it rather lyrically puts it, "carry yin on their backs and embrace yang with their arms" (ch. 42).

Uncertain of what the future may hold for them, players have entertained offers from overseas.