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.
• Teams this close to a playoff spot should not be selling at the trade deadline.
  — Patrick Mooney, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
• But no matter the cause, the end result was a stock that hasn't been this cheap in over a decade.
  — CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Haddish will handle this sudden invasion of her space with charm and grace.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 26 Mar. 2018
• Gigabyte doesn’t push this all the way toward a hard-core gaming laptop.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• But there was no rationalizing this sudden loss of hand control.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 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
• 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
• It’s been about a half-decade since the Cubs entered the season feeling this confident that the playoffs were likely.
  — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• An American had never done so this late in the Champions League knockout stage.
  — Rob Harris, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Especially with a starring role this attractive to performers, there’s no question this play will have a future.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
• The industry also expected it, just not this quickly, not in the third year of a complete rebuild of one of baseball’s last old-school franchises.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• In their 66 years of playing baseball in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have never fielded a pitching staff with numbers this bad.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Having two volcanoes this close and both in a state of unrest is very unusual in Alaska, Power said, even though there are such occurrences elsewhere in the world.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• And this particular asteroid won’t come this close again until 2500, NASA says.
  — Michael McGough, sacbee, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Will this sudden, unexpected reappearance finally encourage authorities to devote real time and effort to saving this rare pescatarian species?
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
• 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
• For Marcotte, navigating this sudden extreme popularity as a new company has been interesting.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• For a Vanderbilt program that has produced All-Americans and WNBA talent, no one has ever reached this level of production this quickly.
  — Jalon Dixon, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025