How to Use this in a Sentence

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• I need a nail about this long.
• We've waited this long for the pizza, we might as well stay until it's ready.
• As Post notes, no one frets this much over a handshake.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• But even a powerhouse like Rhimes cannot do all this alone.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
• That said, and please, don't spread this around, the rest of the video is pretty much taken directly from daily life.
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• This sudden, yet wise, decision is to simply see what else is out there in life.
  — The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 29 May 2017
• Sunday afternoon proved this much: going all brown is not the best course of action.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• Check out the video from last year's festivities below — and be jealous your own prom didn't look this much fun!
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2015
• Most visitors only go this far, but the road turns to dirt and continues to climb into the White Mountains.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018
• Gigabyte doesn’t push this all the way toward a hard-core gaming laptop.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• To some of his peers, however, even that much time with a mostly healthy roster this late in the season feels like a luxury.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• The learning curve isn’t supposed to go this quickly, so perhaps the Cavs own troubles had something to do with what was on display on this night.
  — Steve Popper, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• Haddish will handle this sudden invasion of her space with charm and grace.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 26 Mar. 2018
• And try to turn this around on them as well, say, the only people who are, in fact, making America sick again are those of you who are helping us to fix the problem.
  — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2017
• An American had never done so this late in the Champions League knockout stage.
  — Rob Harris, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Life expectancy is not supposed to fall in countries that are this rich, spend this much on health and pride themselves on taking care of each other.
  — David Bishai, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• And this particular asteroid won’t come this close again until 2500, NASA says.
  — Michael McGough, sacbee, 18 Aug. 2017
• Ill-equipped to handle this sudden and intense burst of stardom (what teenager would be?), Young never capitalized on his fame.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• But there was no rationalizing this sudden loss of hand control.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Hough has actually undergone a few drastic hair changes in her time — she's tried both a reddish brunette shade and bubblegum pink before — but it's been a while since she's done anything this different.
  — Erin Mayer, Redbook, 15 Feb. 2018
• Helped by falling oil prices, airlines are reporting record profits, but for many passengers this sudden bonanza has meant little more than extra bags of free peanuts and pretzels.
  — Jad Mouawad, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2016
• Most scientists say this much warming by the end of the century is probably unlikely, although not impossible—and such high levels of warming could still occur beyond the year 2100.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2020
• Fields’s father reportedly died before his birth in a car accident, but scholars say this alone doesn’t predispose someone to radicalization and extremism.
  — Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
• For Marcotte, navigating this sudden extreme popularity as a new company has been interesting.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• I need a nail about this long.
• We've waited this long for the pizza, we might as well stay until it's ready.
• As Post notes, no one frets this much over a handshake.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• But even a powerhouse like Rhimes cannot do all this alone.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
• That said, and please, don't spread this around, the rest of the video is pretty much taken directly from daily life.
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• This sudden, yet wise, decision is to simply see what else is out there in life.
  — The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024