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Example sentences for "lot"

Lexicographically close words:
loss; losse; losses; lost; loste; lota; lote; loth; lothe; lothsome
  1. What a lot of rubbish a tenant gets about him if he stays long enough in one place, to be sure,' said Mr. Beeton, at last.

  2. A lot of trouble he's taking and she too.

  3. His lot is cruel hard, and if he's crossed he do swear worse than any one I've ever served.

  4. I'm not making any slams, but there's a lot of fellows among our gentlemanly political opponents who would go a whole lot crazier for a whole lot less!

  5. He entered the keeper's office and said quietly: "I have stolen a lot of money, but I can't prove it.

  6. It was weeks before we mentioned you again--he and I--though I saw a lot of him at Lucky Star.

  7. Thank you a whole lot for sticking up for me," said Nick, boyishly.

  8. You'd be born knowin' a lot about that, I dare say, in your family.

  9. A right smart lot of letters wanting me to buy things came along about that time.

  10. I have a lot of them about the house, for visitors.

  11. Mrs. Gaylor's never been, but she reads a lot about society folk and their doings in the papers.

  12. My mother used to talk a lot about those things, you know, and though I was only a little shaver when she died, I've remembered most all that was connected with her.

  13. You know, I guess, there's a chain of 'em, and the fine thing it would be to see the lot by road!

  14. I'd no right to dictate when it meant your sacrificing a lot of money--a hundred pounds at least, which would go begging unless you accepted.

  15. I should love to snapshot you in that Indian hammock, though the picture would lose a lot without colour.

  16. I guess I must have wandered all round Robin Hood's Barn, when, just as I was ready to give up boat, the stars come out through a lot of clouds, and showed me the roof of the church.

  17. I don't mean it that way, though I've got an almighty lot to thank the Something for--as well as to thank you.

  18. It seems to me you know a wonderful lot of fool things that ain't so, and I can't yoke up with 'em.

  19. It was so queer to stop a car when she was going well just to stare around and talk poetry about a lot of trees.

  20. The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats to the steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread Have faded away like the grass that we tread.

  21. I dug up a lot of old papers from my kit an' went over them.

  22. There are a lot of men around Fairdale who're afraid of their shadows--afraid to be out after dark--afraid to open their mouths.

  23. I've sent a lot of good men to their deaths, and maybe you're another.

  24. I remember what a hard lot the men of my family had.

  25. There's a lot of wild cowboys who're ambitious for a reputation.

  26. I'm buried here--buried alive with a lot of thieves and murderers.

  27. But every man who's lived along the Texas border remembers a lot about your Dad.

  28. Jennie, I'll take a lot of killing," he said.

  29. He's killed a lot of fellers, an' some fer nothin'.

  30. And now I have given you a lot of old-fashioned advice, and so I am going to give you something to sweeten it with.

  31. Now, you mark my words, Sorais will throw in her lot with Nasta, who is sulking up in the North there, and there will be such a war as has not been known in Zu-Vendis for centuries.

  32. I should have liked it still less had I known that in the name of the outraged majesty of his god he was demanding that the whole lot of us should be offered up as a sacrifice by means of being burnt alive.

  33. Many present hastened to throw in their lot with the 'Lady of the Night', but some came from her following to us.

  34. She lost a lot of time here talking, and I saw her stop to tell the young woman at the bar over yonder what a hurry she was in.

  35. You'll see how pleased she'll be with you, and what a lot of gratitude you'll get for taking her part.

  36. There's a lot of pain in work, but it's only of the muscles and my pain has always been in the things I've thought about.

  37. I really feel like leaving the car there all night, but it would do a lot of damage.

  38. We're all like a lot of hens in a backyard, scratching so many hours a day.

  39. And he was escaping a lot of anguish, not by praying for Bill's soul or his own forgiveness, but by the simple process of harnessing a team and dragging a car through the mud.

  40. What a lot of bosh is talked about lovers," his comment ran.

  41. Sixteen thousand is an awful lot when it's coming, but it just seems about half as big when it gets here.

  42. Somehow, I thought thirteen years would make a lot of difference, but you don't look a day older.

  43. This is a whole lot of money," his thoughts ran.

  44. Why didn't he learn that it's only a lot of senseless pain?

  45. She's got a lot of tunes in her voice," thought Bart, eagerly leading the young lady into the presence of granny and gran'sir.

  46. Some bad rocks in our harbour as well as a lot of sand.

  47. That is a good spirit, young man; and let me assure you if you stick to that style of doing things, some day you will be able to take comfort--a lot of it.

  48. Who ever threw in their lot with godless men, without incurring the risk of sharing their doom?

  49. Dodd should have been spared; but his melancholy lot is not the less instructive.

  50. We take out tables, and the big boys sit round and drink beer--double allowance on Saturday nights; and we cut about the quadrangle between the songs, and it looks like a lot of robbers in a cave.

  51. They were more like a lot of elder children than servants, and felt to her more as a mother or aunt than as a mistress.

  52. Good gracious, Tom, what a lot of feathers a duck has!

  53. I feel pretty certain that they know a lot more about this scheme of ours than they would like to say; and if that's so, as I think it is, the less they run around loose about the earth the better for us.

  54. Yes; and a Frenchwoman with a lot to win is playing a game for pretty big dollars.

  55. I reckon they allowed there was a lot more to be found here than up north yonder.

  56. You will be a lot more comfortable on board here than you will there, because we're going to take what coal you've got and then sink you.

  57. I don't believe Poppa would have stopped his yacht if he'd struck a whole burying lot afloat.

  58. Those works that the viscount and poppa are getting fixed up there, whatever they mean them for, must be something pretty wonderful, for they're spending quite a lot of money on them.

  59. Just the person you'd expect to talk a lot about the weather.

  60. But in these almost daily separations between Plantagenet and Venetia, how different was her lot to that of her companion!

  61. Even if he were no more, blessed was her lot with such a mother!

  62. By one of those mental efforts which her strange lot often forced her to practise, Venetia at length composed herself, and returned to the room where she believed she would meet her mother, and hoped she should see Cadurcis.

  63. Then once again the covenant with Noah and his seed after him was made in sacrifice, in which the unity of God and the religion of man stand recorded, and man's earthly lot is made dependent on the purity of his worship.

  64. The lot of the antediluvian world bore witness to that truth.

  65. The yet undisclosed secrets of human lot have their origin in Adam and their solution in Christ.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acres; allocate; allot; allotment; allow; allowance; amount; appoint; apportion; appropriate; area; array; assign; assortment; astrology; bank; barrel; batch; battery; bearings; bit; bite; block; blood; body; brand; break; breaks; breed; budget; bunch; bundle; calculate; call; case; cast; chance; character; chunk; circle; circumstance; clan; close; clump; cluster; clutch; collection; color; commission; condition; constellation; contingent; copse; count; croft; crop; crowd; cup; cut; deal; demesne; denomination; description; designation; destine; destiny; detail; dividend; dole; domain; doom; dose; drift; earmark; enclave; end; estate; fatality; fate; feather; field; fix; footing; form; fortune; future; gamble; game; genre; genus; give; grain; grounds; group; grouping; grove; half; hap; hassock; heap; helping; holding; holdings; honor; hunk; ilk; inevitability; interest; jam; kidney; kin; kind; knot; label; land; line; location; lot; luck; lump; make; making; manner; manor; mark; mass; measure; meed; mess; mint; modality; mode; modicum; moiety; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; mountain; much; multiplicity; nature; number; oodles; opportunity; ordain; pack; pale; parcel; part; pass; patch; peck; percentage; persuasion; phylum; pickle; piece; pile; place; plastic; plat; platoon; play; plenty; plight; plot; portion; position; posture; pot; power; predestination; predicament; probability; profusion; property; proportion; push; quadrangle; quadrat; quantity; quantum; quota; race; raffle; raft; range; rank; ration; realty; rely; reserve; restrict; risk; run; scads; schedule; section; segment; shape; share; shock; sight; situation; slew; slice; sort; spate; species; speculate; sport; spot; square; stack; stake; stamp; standing; stars; station; status; stock; strain; stripe; style; suite; sum; tenement; thicket; toss; tract; tragedy; tribe; tuft; type; uncertainty; variety; wad; weird; wisp