How to Use a lot in a Sentence

a lot

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• There has been a lot of change in the business world, right?
  — Lisa Z. Lindahl, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• And, no, the irony isn’t lost on her; there’s not a lot that gets past her acute mind.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• By then there were a lot of conflicts on the staff over the whole story.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• In a windy week, a lot of larch in the valley were losing their thorns.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
• Did you guys just have a lot of time to be free with each other?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The landlady has a cat, too, that gets a lot of screen time, and is quite good.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Oscar winner has a lot of skin in the game on this passion project.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
• Not a lot of people know about it so just kind of a shout out to small schools all over.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2024
• People have a lot of things on their plate, a lot of things to juggle and a lot of things to do.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• This Netflix doc is a lot of that kind of stuff and a love story, all in one.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 21 July 2024
• Seeing a lot of things, going through that, kind of helps me.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
• And now, once again, a lot of things are smelling sweet like vanilla…but not too sweet.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Sep. 2024
• Not a lot of bad things have happened to it in five hundred years.
  — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the here and now, there’s the caveat that a lot likely has happened behind the scenes, out of the public eye.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
• Eight weeks is not a lot of time to gain muscle, explains Brown.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 June 2024
• The store welcomed a lot of customers whose homes and clothes were destroyed.
  — Angela Velasquez, WWD, 2 Aug. 2024
• With the Heat losing seven straight for the first time since 2008, there was a lot that needed to change.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2024
• This is sure to set in motion a lot of lust from leading men and ladies who can sing and dance.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
• But Yardeni warned that the end result of this scenario would also look a lot like the 90s—and that means a crash.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Judging from the cheers, a lot of people were from Chicago.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
• Dog owners chimed in noting that the little helper picks up a a lot of pet hair.
  — Maggie Horton, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• We are inspired by each other and gain a lot of friendship from all over the world.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• All three of them have a lot of growth still ahead of them, and that's very intentional.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 13 June 2024
• But there’s a lot of jealousy involved with some of the other ghosts who have been there longer.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• There’s a lot of feelings there after that happened to me.
  — Alex Heath, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
• There’s a lot of cleaning up of past deeds and misdeeds (and, notably, some avoidance to do the same).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
• And in a lot of ways, religion have offered safe haven.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• There’s a lot of sides [to him] that people don’t really know.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Democrats failed to message to them by running their candidate as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, which, frankly, turned a lot of the Black men off.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
• Half say the country's seriously off on the wrong track -- still a lot, but vastly fewer than among Trump supporters.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024