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Example sentences for "whole lot"

  • I'll admit that you don't know anything against them, but you suspect a whole lot.

  • I've been on a whole lot of programmes during my brief career.

  • Advice is cheaper than experience, and a whole lot easier to forget," she said.

  • It's a whole lot better to get over it now than to do so by and by when it's too late.

  • There'll be a whole lot to manage, between the club and the dance and all the rest of it.

  • I don't mean school-teaching, but a whole lot of things women ought to be doing but ain't because they don't know how.

  • Mama says that if I just will read novels I ought to read good ones, and she gave me a set of Thackeray for my own; but you can skip a whole lot in him, I'm here to state!

  • And mother and the girls leaving him that way has hurt him; it hurts him a whole lot.

  • I'm up against a whole lot of trouble, and I came to get your advice.

  • But I want you to know where I stand and the friendly feeling of a whole lot of people toward you.

  • There's a whole lot in keepin' the feller you're fightin' off his guard until you've got him in a corner with his hands down.

  • Now, Mr. Cobb, we've talked a whole lot and it don't seem to me we got anywheres.

  • Just try one of those clam fritters of Imogene's and you'll eat a whole lot.

  • Two thousand dollars is a whole lot of money.

  • And then I understood what it meant to 'cut out' cattle from 'a whole lot.

  • Already I had a much better conception of what a 'whole lot' of cattle meant.

  • How many was a whole lot, how were they driven, where were they driven from, what were they cut out with, how were they branded, and when did they need it?

  • He's handled my stocks and things a whole lot better'n I ever did.

  • I am, but that doesn't help me a whole lot.

  • You probably think that two young folks making love are alone if anybody ever is, but there's nothing in this town that you don't do in company with a whole lot of uninvited but awful interested guests.

  • Calibree stated to Kennicott, "No, I don't believe we care to a whole lot, but you folks go ahead and try it.

  • By this time we were in the heart of the village, and surrounded with a whole lot, forty at the least, of Blankanese boatinen.

  • So I said "Well they was only one pitcher I ever heard of that couldn't talk and that was Dummy Taylor but at that they's a whole lot of them that if they couldn't say my arm's sore they might as well be tongue tied.

  • Well old pal they's a whole lot of difference between learning something from somebody that knows what they are talking about and visa versa.

  • I would like him a whole lot better if he was about 1/2 his size but no he is as big as me only not put up like I am.

  • I've had a whole lot o' talk with ole Doc Gurney about you, one time another, and I reckon I understand your case just about as well as he does, anyway!

  • Her husband is a general, Sir Jasper Merrifield, and he is gone out to command in some place in India; but she cannot stand the climate, and is living at home at a place called Silverfold, with a whole lot of children.

  • Do you know, Dolly, though Fly is such a darling, and they all wanted to be kind as well as they knew how, I came to understand how horrid you must have felt when you came among the whole lot of us.

  • You're a whole lot deeper'n I thought you was.

  • It had--it had--well, it had done a whole lot.

  • We'd have to drop a whole lot lower, so as to take a closer survey, and learn just how smooth the surface of the floe is," Tom continued.

  • Business was unusually brisk in the way of engagements; and Tom more than once secretly regretted that circumstances beyond their control caused them to miss a "whole lot of fun.

  • A whole lot depends on whether we learn of any other plane having been meddled with.

  • So I went ahead, telling him how Mabel had come to us, why she come, how well she was liked, how much she liked us, and a whole lot more.

  • The Thompsons was there and the Smalls and a whole lot more.

  • A whole lot of the boarders had gone on the evening train, and at our house Van Wedderburn was the only one left.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole lot" 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:
    burnt offering; governing territory; gracious smile; great force; great tree; intense bombardment; long speech; obtain redress; our cause; reference work; whole cloves; whole day; whole generation; whole heart; whole life; whole nation; whole night; whole numbers; whole passel; whole pepper; whole sentence; whole skin; whole week; whole wheat; whole world; wholesome food