How to Use a lot in a Sentence

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• There has been a lot of change in the business world, right?
  — Lisa Z. Lindahl, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The team will need more from him than it’s seen for a lot of this year.
  — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
• For a lot of Gen Z gamers, the DS was the first version of a smartphone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
• And, no, the irony isn’t lost on her; there’s not a lot that gets past her acute mind.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• He’s got the kind of skillset that will be attractive to a lot of teams.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2025
• By then there were a lot of conflicts on the staff over the whole story.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• He’s been a sponge and open to a lot of different things.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
• In a windy week, a lot of larch in the valley were losing their thorns.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
• Did you guys just have a lot of time to be free with each other?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The massive complex is a lot more than just a place to grab a beer.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
• The massive complex is a lot more than just a place to grab a beer.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2025
• Keeping Intel alive makes a lot of sense in the short term.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• The landlady has a cat, too, that gets a lot of screen time, and is quite good.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Oscar winner has a lot of skin in the game on this passion project.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
• Not a lot of people know about it so just kind of a shout out to small schools all over.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2024
• People have a lot of things on their plate, a lot of things to juggle and a lot of things to do.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• This Netflix doc is a lot of that kind of stuff and a love story, all in one.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 21 July 2024
• Actors get a lot of a lot of praise and all that; shows’ success live or die with the crew.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025
• Seeing a lot of things, going through that, kind of helps me.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
• And now, once again, a lot of things are smelling sweet like vanilla…but not too sweet.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Sep. 2024
• Not a lot of bad things have happened to it in five hundred years.
  — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the here and now, there’s the caveat that a lot likely has happened behind the scenes, out of the public eye.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
• This season goes even deeper—there’s more grit, more heart, and a lot more on the line.
  — Abigail Lee, Variety, 1 July 2025
• Eight weeks is not a lot of time to gain muscle, explains Brown.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 June 2024
• My mental health has grown a lot in those years of being signed.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 14 July 2025
• The unit is situated on a lot spanning 4,100 square feet.
  — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
• But as has been discussed, there is a lot more to the issue underneath the noise.
  — Chloe Demrovsky, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• That’s a lot of time in the car.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
• So a lot of these companies want to partner with us to take these services to the enterprise.
  — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
• Were a lot of serpents biting people in those days.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026