whole lot

Example Sentences

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“We didn’t have a whole lot of traffic out there, but we took advantage of the few mistakes he made. It was big for us to do that.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

And there’s one more person we can influence a whole lot, too: our future selves.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

It could end up costing Hearts a whole lot more than it cost Motherwell.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

There’s a whole lot of strength in that, and I feel proud knowing I’m her daughter.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller