LIKELIHOOD in a Sentence
Learn LIKELIHOOD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
21 example sentences for LIKELIHOOD, such as:
1. We must try our best to reduce the likelihood of war.
2. In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning.
3. We all agree the likelihood is less, but still possible.
4. I wonder if there's any likelihood of dinner this evening.
5. This shouldn't affect the likelihood of you getting the job.
2. In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning.
3. We all agree the likelihood is less, but still possible.
4. I wonder if there's any likelihood of dinner this evening.
5. This shouldn't affect the likelihood of you getting the job.
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Meanings and Examples of LIKELIHOOD
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likelihood
n. the probability of a specified outcome
Classic Sentence:
1 If, then, you take after him, your voyage will not be fruitless, but unless you have the blood of Ulysses and of Penelope in your veins I see no likelihood of your succeeding.
2 In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning.
3 Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
4 It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood perfectly ignorant of what had happened.
5 In that case, so liable as every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell would in all likelihood see him somewhere.
6 To Mrs. Yeobright, as soon as she could calmly reflect, there was much likelihood in this, for she could hardly believe that Wildeve would really appropriate money belonging to her son.
7 Her knocking will, in all likelihood, awaken him," continued Eustacia, "and then he will let her in himself.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
8 In the words preceding it she had conjectured, at most, an allusion to her supposed influence over George Dorset; nor did the astonishing indelicacy of the reference diminish the likelihood of Rosedale's resorting to it.
9 That rusty black hat with the drooping red flower, it might not be Ona's, but there was very little likelihood of it.
10 I do not know what I told her," he replied, impatiently; "less than was due to the past, beyond a doubt, and in all likelihood much more than was justified by the future.
11 I wonder if there's any likelihood of dinner this evening.
Example Sentence:
1 A person's genetic makeup has a strong influence on the likelihood that they catch HIV.
2 We all agree the likelihood is less, but still possible.
3 I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by someone across the lawn.
4 Even more problematic is the likelihood that once instituted, such a tax would be expanded.
5 Over the last decade it has become increasingly apparent that a person's genetic makeup has a strong influence on the likelihood of them catching HIV.
6 This shouldn't affect the likelihood of you getting the job.
7 Using a seatbelt will reduce the likelihood of serious injury in a car accident.
8 We must try our best to reduce the likelihood of war.
9 The laser guidance system dramatically increases the likelihood that the missile will strike home.
10 This latest dispute greatly increases the likelihood of a strike.