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Example sentences for "much the"

  • So much the better," replied the latter, with an inexpressible depth of feeling and intelligence.

  • If monseigneur has come here to remove him, so much the better, for I was going to write about him.

  • But wherefore so beyond my power of sight Soars your desirable discourse, that aye The more I strive, so much the more I lose it?

  • So much the better; he will procure us what we want.

  • Well, so much the better, it is a sign that my scent is tolerably keen yet.

  • So much the worse; but, at least, I will do for your protege what you refuse to permit me to do for you.

  • So much the worse," said Baisemeaux with a sigh.

  • So much the better, count, as far as you are concerned; the worst news would be good news.

  • The Major knows it; but no one is the wiser for that, though the Major is much the merrier.

  • Scritch Owls, much the same as in Europe.

  • Marsh-Hen, much the same as in Europe, only she makes another sort of Noise, and much shriller.

  • What had passed between them was much the same as what happened at their first meeting in Raskolnikov's room.

  • It was not so much the money I wanted, but something else.

  • If they suffer at the hands of the authorities, so much the better.

  • We had a long talk with Starlight, and what he said came to much the same.

  • This was what she wanted, and if it had broken her infernal neck so much the better.

  • If we lost it seemed as if everything was so much the worse, and blacker than it looked at first, just for this bit of hope and comfort.

  • Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me?

  • Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.

  • I shall know before long, and if it should be the case so much the better.

  • I have often laughed on hearing philosophers declare that the intelligence of a nation is not so much the result of the climate as of education.

  • So much the better, for I like to be in the company of persons who do not think themselves above me.

  • That is my question; it is a long one, but so much the better; the answer will be long too, and I like long answers.

  • So much the better," said Clementine; "what did he play for, when he knew that he could not pay his debts if he incurred any?

  • Its insolubility is much the same as keratin.

  • It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian (Herod.

  • Much the miller's son grinned by way of answer to the Sheriff's amazement, and served the plates, and placed them before the party.

  • Then stepped forth Little John and Much the miller's son.

  • Now do you, Little John, and do you, Much the miller's son, go right speedily.

  • Even Little John essayed to sing, although looked at threateningly by Much the miller's son.

  • Rather the contrary, indeed; and, on better acquaintance, much the contrary.

  • Some authors believe it to be as much the function of the reproductive system to produce individual differences, or very slight deviations of structure, as to make the child like its parents.

  • It is a common belief that the more ancient a form is, by so much the more it tends to connect by some of its characters groups now widely separated from each other.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crossed the; dead and; had his; much about; much admired; much afraid; much astonished; much branched; much delicacy; much difference; much difficulty; much ease; much elongated; much esteemed; much excited; much flattened; much food; much heat; much higher; much interested; much kindness; much money; much reduced; much sugar; much talk; much uneasiness