How to Use very well in a Sentence

very well

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  • The beef sticks were here, the beef jerky was there and now that may very well change.
    David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • That, by the way, again, has served the United States very well.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • The project could have worked very well if the country wasn’t Brazil.
    Ricardo Fort, Sportico.com, 24 June 2024
  • And in the last few years, sellers have done very well.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • She's not defined very well in the minds of a lot of voters.
    CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • It is very well done and would give many people a chance to drive through the area.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Keep in Mind The storage hook didn’t secure the brush very well.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Scott very well would have hauled in the pass had Newton not pulled him down.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
  • SpaceX launched what could very well be the first private landing on the Moon.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Both laws are before the Supreme Court, which very well may strike them down.
    David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And with two days left in the auction, that number could very well climb.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Well, now that the Roborock Q5 is on sale at Woot, that may very well happen even for you.
    Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Cons The lid doesn’t fit very well so by the end of use, steam and bubbles were leaking out.
    Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Colorado just left for the Big 12, and Arizona could very well be next.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The other thing Dreame does very well is clean baseboards and edges.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 17 July 2024
  • Chelsie's résumé did blow her out of the water, and Chelsie just knows how to speak very well.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Had the drought continued, this may have very well come true.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Frankly, everything with the Rays home for 2025 went off very well.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • But that could very well be a clue that things will not end up well for him when the finale comes around.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Still, the impacts from tariffs might very well by a slow burn, Sahm said.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
  • The Patriots may have very well had the best offseason of any team in the NFL.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Knowing Elon Musk's quirky antics, that very well may have been the goal.
    New Atlas, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Thanks to the unique climate and soil, grapes grow very well in this corner of the South—and not just sweet muscadines.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
  • But, the freeze date could very well keep getting later.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And that didn’t work very well, either.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
  • So that many more Democrats turning out in the primary bodes very well for November.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This game was a good example of how the Spurs can adapt in a matchup that could very well be a Finals preview.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Resisting the urge to pause for a photo every few steps could very well become your biggest challenge of the trip; that, or deciding where to eat.
    Annie Daly, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That his parents are very well-mannered.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • For example, there’s a lot of cozy or light drama, and crime drama always works very well, thrillers and this kind of genre.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026

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