Sentence examples for perhaps alive from inspiring English sources

The theory that the song refers to the burying, perhaps alive, of children in the foundations of the bridge was first advanced by Alice Bertha Gomme (later Lady Gomme) in The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland (1894-1898) and perpetuated by the usually sceptical Iona and Peter Opie.

The author finds himself in the predicament of feeling vividly alive — perhaps more alive than ever — while facing imminent demise.

There is perhaps no lawyer alive in higher demand.

No poet alive, perhaps, uses anaphora better; none relies on it more.

Now the neighborhood must find ways of keeping the momentum alive, perhaps with another blockbuster.

It is claimed that the monks are actually keeping Querig alive, perhaps because their focus is not on the present but on the heavenly future.

With three of the film's "terrorists" still alive, perhaps it is time for the documentary to be shown again in France.

Not only would the victims of 9/11 perhaps still be alive, America would likely not have embarked on the bloody, gruelling and expensive war in Iraq.

Most relatives fear the worst; others cling to the hope that their missing relative is still alive, perhaps forced to work in the opium poppy fields that pepper the mountainous region beyond Chilapa.

Often, the motivation is shame, but sometimes hatred is a factor as well; and sometimes the mother of murdered children is left alive, perhaps notified by phone or a letter afterward — See what you've made me do.

If we worry so much about keeping these cultures alive, perhaps a good place to start would be to acknowledge them as the lifestyles that they are, rather than the charming traditions we make them out to be.