How to Use any in a Sentence

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  • The food there is never any good.
  • I could not walk any farther.
  • I can't eat any more pizza.
  • He won't be any happier there than he was here.
  • This is what the regime is scared of — that nobody is afraid any longer.
    Sharareh Drury, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Colts could not carry him on the practice squad any longer.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2022
  • So how is the public supposed to know if the judges are any good at their jobs?
    Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The Bears drove to the Notre Dame 22 midway through the fourth quarter but couldn’t get any closer.
    Tom Coyne, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • There just aren’t a lot of people any better than that.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Are these any better than the dine-n-scroll that so many of us engage in now?
    Mary Beth Albright, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The records also state none of the women charged with felonies are employed at the daycare any longer.
    Sara Turnbull, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Which doesn't make our job of picking the 10Best any easier at all.
    Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Kane doesn’t breathe any better than the Lab, according to Flylow.
    Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2023
  • One thing the video game industry can’t afford to do, though, is wait any longer.
    Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • But that doesn’t make the human supply chain any cheaper.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Don't have a DVD/Blu-ray player (or video game console that takes discs), any longer?
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Waiting any longer would move the U.S. closer to the brink of a global health catastrophe.
    Carlos Del Rio, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The unanswered question: Will the ‘pen be any better than last season?
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Formulas that functioned over the last five years don’t work any longer.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • And conditions on the road weren’t any better in many areas.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The last two weeks couldn't have gone any better for the Kentucky's men's basketball team.
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 28 Feb. 2023
  • One is the fact that this is not any more the decisive election for control of Senate.
    ABC News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • If critics cease to be, would life on earth be any different?
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Hooked to a breathing tube, IVs, and a monitor, there was no denying the cancer any longer.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Angie said the couple loved to dance, mainly the jitterbug, but not so much any longer.
    cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
  • On the surface, things couldn’t be going any better for Kelly.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 8 May 2023
  • The bad news: there is as yet little prospect growth will be any better than before the pandemic.
    Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Why should Haitians believe that this time will be any different?
    Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Turns out, the perfect-looking stuff usually isn't any better than the home-grown stuff.
    David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • Will the return be any better than on placing funds in a crypto exchange?
    WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022

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