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Example sentences for "not much"

  • Her beautiful golden hair, gathered into a knot on the back of her neck, left visible the red star on her temple which had so nearly been the cause of her death.

  • My dear fellow, the science of the aerostation of dirigible balloons is not yet developed enough for me to consider it and suppose that a murderer would drop from the clouds!

  • Not much better--not much better; he is still confined to his bed.

  • As I was saying, there's not much ill in that lot.

  • I take it there's not much risk of another push this mornin'?

  • There's not much trouble in that quarter for it's he and his kind that's beating the Hun .

  • I'm not much of a scholar, barring a little French and the Latin I got at Heriot's Hospital .

  • Not much life, not much strength; youth and beauty slipping!

  • Not much of the conquering male in him, nor in her of the ordinary enchantress.

  • To have done it is not much to be sad about, but to feel that you have done it must be a cause of sorrow.

  • A kiss is not much, I suppose, and it happens to few young people to be able to avoid all blandishments and attentions except from the one they afterwards marry.

  • Now, as to your stepmother, you'll find she is not much to look at, though a good deal to listen to.

  • And is it not much further to the first house we come to going that way, than to the vicarage or to The Crags?

  • My husband is remotely connected with them; but there is not much intimacy on account of----.

  • There is not much difference, 'tis true, between a tinker and a smith.

  • I wonder how my horse's knees are; not much hurt, I think--only mired.

  • Not much," said Jim, laughing at the joke.

  • He strolled along with his hands in his pockets, not much concerned at the deficiencies in his costume.

  • I didn't think of the bell," said Paul; "I am not much used to hotels.

  • Well," he said, "I'm not much out of pocket.

  • A thousand pounds is not much, Mr. Pickwick.

  • He's not much used to ladies' society, and it makes him bashful.

  • It's not much trouble to open it, anyhow," said Tom, getting out of bed very deliberately.

  • Not much,' said Mr. Winkle, rubbing his back very hard.

  • It can all be managed; you will only have to put up with a little delay, which is relatively of not much importance.

  • However," said Lord Glenarvan, "I am not much astonished at it in Paganel.

  • Whether they are gazons or sods, is not much matter, replied Trim; your Honour knows they are ten times beyond a facing either of brick or stone.

  • You may think that there is not much to be evolved from Pig.

  • There's not much to choose between 'em; but I suppose you're aware that that's one of the worst houses in the place.

  • One hundred and thirty-five rupees out of three hundred and thirty is not much to live on; but it was absurd to suppose that Mrs. Hatt could exist forever on the 20 pounds held back by Dicky, from his outfit allowance.

  • There's not much in it, but I wish I'd torn it up.

  • Not much beholden,' said the stranger drily.

  • There is not much news, except that the battle is on, and practically the whole French army is engaged.

  • She felt that her presence was not much desired, and at last she went upstairs and resignedly watched them from the sitting-room window.

  • Oh, that a handful of seeds can make anything so pretty in a few weeks, and it takes a man so long to do anything and then it's not much account.

  • There's not much to do here, by way of amusement," said the Major.

  • I am not much mistaken, was entered into days before R.

  • Mr Henley is right in saying that the gifted boy had not much humour.

  • It is not much, perhaps, but it is always something.

  • Not much relief, however, was there in the shut and barred door.

  • Not much,' spoke up the young fellar, an' he flipped some gold twenties on the bar, where they rung like bells.

  • Jacobs laughed and answered, "Not much risk," and went out with Guy.

  • Not much: That ain't my kind; I ain't no such.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not much" 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:
    judicial separation; not appear; not care; not confined; not enough; not exactly; not exist; not find; not here; not hesitate; not much; not really; not say; not there; not true; not very; not well; note book; nothing like; nothing more; nothing short; noticed hereafter; relatively large; thus also; whose words; write letters