How to Use very in a Sentence

very

1 of 2 adverb
  • This came today and looked very thin in the package...wrong!
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most of all, the Bray School building is a very rare survival.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The setting of where Bibi lives is very important to me.
    Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • So the impact of the strike on the festival will be very limited.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
  • The union’s workings are complex and the proposals are very broad.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The devices were not very complex and likely did not explode at all, the source said.
    CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The easiest way to clean your oven racks is to fill a bathtub with very hot water.
    Janece Maze, Country Living, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Some of those who believe in the FBI’s involvement are very firm in their opinions.
    Scott Clement, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Thermos is very easy to clean, even without a dishwasher.
    Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And there’s something very playful to me and very humorous about that.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There's the potential for long-term serious harm for a very short-term gain.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • At Loewe, they were given a very (very) high waist and replaced suit pants, redefining the lines of the officewear trend.
    Alexandre Marain, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The 41-year-old said there was very little damage to her house, except for some mild flooding in her garage.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Her very special love of all though was her brother Bubba.
    Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • At least 60 hatchlings appear to have survived out of more than 90 eggs—a very healthy ratio.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Rock has become a very obscure kind of label to call something.
    Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
  • For that reason, the community got very tight-knit very fast.
    Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • His shoots are very abbreviated: the first film took nine days, the second one six days.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Overall, our team was very happy with the abundance of outlets and ports throughout the cabin.
    Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
  • To have to remain in a band together post-that was very difficult.
    Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Mandalorian is just fun TV with very little faults.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • One of them that Hollywood has been pulling out yet again for fall is the little black dress — but with a very practical twist.
    Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Those have been the things that have really brought the United States and Israel so very close together.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The past two months have been very difficult, Cedeno says.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the very small freezers on the market seem too small to be worth the investment or are only helpful if freezing one item.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Juwan Johnson had his family on the sidelines cheering him on in a very special start to the NFL season.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This cream blush has a very pigmented formula, so a little goes a long way.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 9 Apr. 2024
  • But a consecutive American attempt missed very high, and very wide, to the right.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But the idea of working with reflective surfaces has become very, very...
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But, imagining it and bringing it to life are two very different things.
    oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
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very

2 of 2 adjective
  • Her chin tilt is the very axis on which the show spins.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These artists were now truly going to be singing, from their very souls, about the cause.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This is a song that David wrote at the very beginning of his career.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • All these testimonies are the wording of the very people.
    Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Keep the faith and root down into the depth of your very being in order to get yourself there.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Offense had some success in two minute there at the very end of the series, had some success in the red area.
    oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But her nails do have a very summery — if not downright springy — feel.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • With some irony, Jones presents their sleuthing through a mix of computer and cellphone screens – the very places L’espérance doesn’t want to be.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The tannins are velvety, and the finish goes on and on before a bright splash of acidity at the very end.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the process, the movie frivolously normalizes that discourse in that very milieu.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the business plan for care.com was born out of that very experience.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • These running shoes will fuel that very fire and keep him comfortable in the process.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The City Council seemed convinced the Andersons planned to violate the very essence of Roanoke.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
  • What to Consider They're best reserved for very snowy or cold days.
    Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
  • One of the saddest ironies in the music world is the fact that songwriters are at the very bottom of the streaming economy.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But as the strike goes on, the people who will feel it the worst are those very workers, which gives them an incentive to settle.
    David Streitfeld, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And the very end of our story is the chapter that will finally reveal the fullness of that meaning.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the very fact of the movie’s existence continued to puzzle and delight her.
    Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • At the very end of the trailer, a new character, rumored to be named Jason, is revealed.
    Lily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Hollywood spent a huge part of last year on strike to illustrate this very point.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
  • That scene in particular is one that developed over time and changed at the very end.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • And jeweler Neil Lane will be sitting in the front row of Gerry’s family side, in the very end seat.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Saying the wrong thing might have endangered his business or his very life.
    Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe the most surprising moment comes at the very beginning.
    Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the very top of the pantheon, F1 Garage is considered the most luxurious option at the entire race.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The citrus pecking order goes cuties, then lemons for lemon bars, then blood oranges, then G&T limes, then kumquats, and at the very bottom of the list, grapefruit.
    EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This achieves a central goal of the cocktailian bar: The very idea of fancy artichoke juice sends the light-beer crowd running for the exits.
    Eric Felten, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The bigger problem, however, is that the very idea that such a deal could be wrought is a complete fantasia.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • At Copa del Sol, a spectacular concrete vessel sits perched on a cliff at the very edge of Careyes.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023

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