How to Use a whole lot in a Sentence

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  • Right now, there aren’t a whole lot of other jobs out there.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Cars come whipping around the corner and the tight curves in the road make 45 mph seem a whole lot faster.
    — Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But regarding women’s reproductive health in our country, beyond a shadow of a doubt, things have changed, and if this election goes the wrong way, things could rapidly get a whole lot worse.
    — Krista Vernoff, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In effect, the clippers function as an early warning system for newsrooms, surfacing remarks, noise or nonsense that’s about to get a whole lot of attention.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • There’s not a whole lot of change ahead in the forecast.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But if the last year was about the NFL, the future is about a whole lot more.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Can’t ask for a whole lot more in the back third of July.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
  • Oh, and her cat looks a whole lot like the one from the movie trailer.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2023
  • And there’s a whole lot that has to happen behind the scenes to get to that point.
    — Sarah Klein, SELF, 24 July 2024
  • There are a whole lot of things; shows, store openings, and more.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There's just not a whole lot of shows like that anymore.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 July 2024
  • So there’s a whole lot of things that are open questions.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 8 May 2023
  • And after this, a whole lot more boomers and Gen-Xers might too.
    — Vulture, 6 July 2023
  • Plus, Flores got to have a whole lot of fun with it this time around.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • This gift will make movie and game nights a whole lot better.
    — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Four hundred fifty sheets mean there’s a whole lot of quirk to go around.
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The success of Bluey has yielded a live show plus books and toys and a whole lot of merch.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • But even the best spray still requires a whole lot of scrubbing.
    — Megan Lasher, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
  • And the country is going to be needing a whole lot of that oil.
    — Gerson Freitas Jr., Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • That process takes a whole lot of effort, there's a whole mountain to climb.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a whole lot of places where the quantum world and the everyday world don’t mesh.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2023
  • There are a whole lot of older white people in this room.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a whole lot more value to your ecosystem if all of your friends are in it.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The result was, for the first six months of boat co-ownership, my boat didn’t leave the slip a whole lot.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The mountain there used to have a whole lot of little glaciers on it and was snow-covered.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Storyteller with a gift of gab and a whole lot of chutzpah.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a whole lot to unpack there, and not quite enough time or candor with which to do it.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • On display among the group of nine are nature details, plaid and a whole lot of black and white.
    — Erin Lassner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • A little this, a little that, and a whole lot of love from his housemates.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Great for wearing to the gym, [the shorts] don’t really ride up a whole lot and don't show crazy sweat.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2023

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