How to Use like so much in a Sentence

like so much

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  • But so much is out of my control just like so much is out of his control.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2023
  • To the next ad campaign designed to look like so much off-the-cuff fun.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Fans singing along to theme music makes AEW events look like so much fun.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The speech, like so much of Hal’s schmoozing, is a roaring success.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But, like so much in the nation’s capital, its status was short-lived.
    Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Luckily, like so much else in our homes, fire pits can adapt to our personal space and style.
    Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2022
  • For most people, this won’t make any sense, but like so much else in the crypto tax world, much is uncertain.
    Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • But like so much that is potentially fraught in the play, that tension slacks off quickly.
    Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The whole story now seems like so much piffle, except for the sons who lost their mother and a princess who lost her life.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In the several weeks since, like so much during the pandemic, the ground has begun to shift.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Between the matching outfits and the choreography, the video looked like so much fun to shoot!
    Tallie Spencer, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Goal setting, like so much of striving for a balanced life, is highly personal.
    Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the Ebony test kitchen—like so much other cultural erasure—was nearly lost.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Her ending was oddly comic, like so much of Mike White’s series.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Strange views crisis and injustice, like so much else, with a sanguine tenacity.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2022
  • But like so much with the Lakers this season, figuring out what would happen next was a mystery.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The line is gay nonsense that, like so much gay nonsense, implicates the entire cosmos as ridiculous.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 June 2022
  • But like so much of gardening, the hardest part of composting is getting started.
    Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • This talky scene is intriguing yet, like so much in the film, fails to fill in the details of Mitra’s memories.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But like so much in campaign politics, those norms have dramatically changed in recent years.
    Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Chanon Judson, the choreographer, described the movement, like so much of the show, as a collage.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The full moon names, like so much else in Wisconsin, have Native American origins.
    Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the time, though, Night Sky is busy being busy — unspooling new plot lines like so much toilet paper and doubling down on chase-thriller drama.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 May 2022
  • UConn’s recent past can’t be sent out like so much dirty laundry to come back clean and fresh, and its future is well beyond the control of the players who are wearing the jersey now.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Exchanges and online brokerages that convert dollars to, say, bitcoin would store all that digital currency for you like so much money in a bank account.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The nature of that business, like so much of what went on at Newport Aeronautical Sales over the past five decades, remains a mystery.
    WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Still, this travel ban — like so much of international law — was ultimately subject to the whims of national governments.
    New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The riot that ensues is, like so much of Andor, visceral and tactile in a way that very little of Star Wars has been since the original trilogy.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Whether this reflects hubris or delusion is unclear, but, like so much of what passes for media innovation today, the project feels strangely rote—like another turn of the ignition in an old car that won’t start.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There are a few big-reach set pieces, including frenzied showdowns inside a prison death chamber and a cavernous cathedral, though the crashing, helter-skelter fight scenes tend to feel like so much obligatory noise between the banter.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021

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