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

"The players underestimated the difficulty of playing this golf course from the rough and we're not seeing a whole lot of putts holed," said former European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

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

From Slate • May 15, 2026

“A whole lot would have to go wrong for it to get to be a systemic issue,” said Anne Walsh, chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

But my world is also a whole lot bigger than I could have ever imagined, because now it holds Rani and Jay and Lakshman and my grandparents inside.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman