How To Use Much In A Sentence

  • Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
  • Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
  • Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
  • The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
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  • There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
  • The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
  • Much investigative journalism involves some form of subterfuge. Times, Sunday Times
  • He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much. Hillary's Woman Problem Part II
  • In their houses, they play much at that most ingenious game which we call chess, or else at draughts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • Over 20 factors were analyzed amongst the DUI attorneys sampled, including whether free consultations are offered, if a lawyer is willing to do 'outcall' (meaning they will meet with potential clients outside the office), how aggressive the defense of the client is, the degree to which each client is offered access to their lawyer, how much time is spent with each client talking by phone or over email, and other factors. WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • So, while the average cup of decaf contains between 6 and 10 milligrams of caffeine per serving, the regulation allows for "decaf" coffee to contain much higher levels of the stimulant, at least 30 milligrams in some cases, according to Undefined
  • Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
  • How much bleach and chemicals? Times, Sunday Times
  • Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market. Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
  • For no apparently good reason, she told me that she hates the word "coochie" just as much as she hates the word cunt, maybe more. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
  • But that is much more easily done if Cassell can reassume his role as the offensive ignition.
  • If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it. The problem with mash-ups « Squash
  • Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
  • There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
  • Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
  • Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
  • I'd like to have something special planned that will keep them occupied and outside in the garden as much as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much of this substance was about fiscal matters.
  • There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
  • Your studies will suffer if you play too much football.
  • As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
  • Too much is made of work defined as a job, anyway. Love, Medicine and Miracles
  • It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
  • Relying too much on markets for either input supplies or sales outlets places the low unit cost of production that comes with economies of scale at risk.
  • This cooperative family decision-making has much to recommend it.
  • Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say—but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. The Philosophy of Composition
  • I got off it and he was incandescent with rage, much of which was to impress the owners. The Sun
  • She's obviously much more interested in the process than in the finished work.
  • We truly are much more team oriented and friendlike to our children than parents have tended to be in the past, in large part because we too identify with many of the peer and academic pressures that kids now face. Childhood Unbound
  • Rack mounted systems are much more interchangeable and the casing lasts forever.
  • A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
  • I'm not being funny, but we haven't got much time.
  • Indeed, since entering 2011, I have been cautious; and except for the 14-point, first day of the year "yippee" to 1273, the SPX hasn't really done all that much. Jeffrey Saut: Waiting for a Pullback - Seeking Alpha
  • We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
  • There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
  • That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
  • This finding is of great concern inasmuch as the protection principle and measures of gaseous arsine are different from the airborne arsenic particulate.
  • Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
  • Canaanite: but [197] _John baptized in Ænon, near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized_. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
  • Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
  • This is not as much an issue of "cardio" - heart and lungs - as it is a neuromuscular issue. Running Advice and News
  • His posture improved so much that his clothes no longer fit.
  • My sister has a much bigger frame than me.
  • This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
  • She is coping so much better with being on these courts and the attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will be house and dog sitting again for the rest of the weekend, so I don't know how much I will be able to check emails.
  • Taking up so much of the roof area, it has to stay sealed with the glass permanently in place to maintain the car's body rigidity.
  • Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
  • He will pull out something special today because this is a huge game and there is so much on the line here for the Wallabies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vordul's verse is uninspiring and sounds much more like spoken word poetry, rather than a proper rap.
  • Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
  • There are few food topics that arouse as much emotion as fish and chips. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be much consulting of paint charts in the next few months. Times, Sunday Times
  • In life, patience is the key. It's much better to be going somewhere slowly than nowhere fast.
  • There's not much opposition to the scheme.
  • Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
  • Remember that we also know that in many body systems there are quasiparticles which act very much like normal particles.
  • That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.
  • She provides love, companionship and entertainment, and brings so much happiness to my life.
  • Early screenings suggested as much, or suggested trouble at least, as preview audiences found the film too dark and violent, all in all too un-Leo.
  • I rely too much on convenience food.
  • But indeed she is given too much to allicholy and musing: but for you -- well, go to. The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • I was too much at risk from the smoulder of his irritability, sudden blazes of rage, to see his deep disappointment with life.
  • Getting deeper into the study of morality showed me that human nature is very much two-sided; for every bad side to our nature, there's a good one.
  • Does honey of rock candy eat much meeting get fat?
  • Much of the defendant's evidence focused on his long-term condition myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times
  • Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
  • The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
  • It's the sort of thing I tend to call a batshit story, and though this term has not caught on as the latest literary, uh, movement, it's the only label that seems to fit so much of the sort of writing I love. Archive 2005-12-01
  • Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
  • The Falcons' first miscue of the night is a missed field goal by Feely, but I imagine it won't matter much.
  • February is seldom a month to bring many people much cheer but this year for Championship clubs on the breadline, it will be tougher than ever. Chelsea's £50m deal for Fernando Torres worries Uefa | Digger
  • If it's wind or bloating, you get too much. The Sun
  • The much anticipated The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere is almost here and we will be hosting a live stream of the red carpet arrivals! TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS JUNE 16TH: ECLIPSE PREMEIRE, CULLEN FAMILY, ROBERT PATTINSON & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • The P. 's have now got the book, and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them -- _She_ looks like a rejected addresser. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
  • Faux economics is different, because, as I stated, doctors know as much about economics as they do about farming.
  • It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
  • For example, male orangs are typically much larger than females and have longer canine teeth.
  • He loved all Jenny's children deeply-especially Ian, the wee gowk whose mixture of foolishness and pigheaded courage reminded him so much of himself at that age. Drums of Autumn
  • Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher 
  • So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
  • Thus, local oxygen partial pressure at the alveolar level is much higher than in other vital organs such as heart, liver, and brain.
  • The smoothly boiled porridge, with its accompaniment of thick yellow cream; the new-laid eggs; the grilled trout, fresh from the stream; the freshly baked "baps" and "scones," the crisp rolls of oatcake; and last, but not least, the delectable, home-made marmalade, which is as much a part of the meal as the coffee itself. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • Too much sodium makes the body excrete calcium, threatening bone density and strength.
  • In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
  • I loved her so much but I always felt it was a one-way relationship so I proposed, she of course said yes.
  • The lonely old man was much to be pitied by all of us.
  • The temperature was -25, but much colder with the wind-chill. Canada.com
  • Too much spoils, too little is nothing. 
  • The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
  • I was right; this time the sonic landscape was less of a frequency battle and a much more harmonious experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • Identification includes much less intense and less exclusive attitudes.
  • Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
  • Mar–Oct; £8.50 per person per night plus £3 YHA membership fee per person per night or £14.35 per year; 07747 174293If it weren't for the fact that Latin is a long-dead language, you could be forgiven for thinking that the phrase multum in parvo much in little was coined specifically with The Buzzards in mind. The 10 best secluded campsites
  • She cast the door aside with a big wave of her hand, much to the delight of the girls behind her.
  • Appropriately, seborrhea by itself is a condition whereby the skin produces to much oiliness. Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » Scalp Psoriasis Vs. Seborrheic Dermatitis
  • After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
  • Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
  • Knowing as much as you can about the problem is helpful in finding solutions. Coping with Stress at Work
  • I won't use the word spartan, but there's not too much ceremony. Electoral College Meets to Begin Final Steps
  • Though as Richard Nash suggests, we're all indie now (except the big guys), so even the term indie doesn't mean much: Hugh McGuire: Why "Self-Publishing" Is Meaningless
  • She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
  • Imagine trying to photograph a large pufferfish with the final frame while an eagle ray circles round your head - much to the amusement of the other divers from the boat.
  • Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
  • It is not unusual to find substances in illegal drugs that are much more harmful than the drugs themselves.
  • Some research suggests, however, that the effects of aging are attenuated not by how much people receive from their community but by how much they contribute to it.
  • The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
  • They decided to close the museum purely and simply because it cost too much to run.
  • *** Pharmaceuticals Sigma Pharmaceuticals said that it is likely to breach loan conditions with bankers after taking a charge of as much as 270 million Australian dollars ($253.4 million) from the A$900 million fire sale of its pharmaceutical division to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare. Business Watch
  • Mortgage brokers report that borrowers increasingly want the security of knowing how much their mortgage repayments will cost for the next decade. Times, Sunday Times
  • A conveyancing solicitor isn't going to be much good for you. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • The most important of the salts, formed by the combinations of the sulphuric acid, are, first, _sulphat of potash_, formerly called _sal polychrest_: this is a very bitter salt, much used in medicine; it is found in the ashes of most vegetables, but it may be prepared artificially by the immediate combination of sulphuric acid and potash. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • More snow, sleet and rain is forecast for much of the country this week. The Sun
  • Language is a collaborative activity Meaning arises as much from what listeners hear as what speakers intend to say.
  • It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
  • During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
  • Much of his work is done on basswood, which is a softer wood with no apparent grain. The Albert Lea Tribune
  • I've never seen men look in the mirror so much.
  • The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
  • There is much to be said on both sides. 
  • I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then). Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
  • She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
  • Remember that special "dietetic" or "diabetic" foods often cost extra money and may not be much healthier than simply following the suggestions given here. Undefined
  • I think the real target oftentimes is not the underclass so much as it is college students.
  • Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
  • They're not going to be making much at the lower end of the scale. Times, Sunday Times
  • '' Then I got about 30 swings with the regular bat and it felt pretty much the same as swinging the fungo, which is obviously a good sign. '', who had surgery to repair a tendon in his right middle finger Aug. 14, visited his doctor in Arizona on Thursday and remains on schedule to return by late September. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
  • The childfree are a diverse group of people, much like the reasons behind the choice not to procreate; however, childfree people tend to be less conventional, more highly educated, and professional. BlogHer - Comments
  • This year's induction festivities in Cooperstown delivered a much-needed boost to the local economy, as large groups of Cubs and Red Sox fans spent gobs of money along the village's Main Street.
  • At a time of so much contradictory evidence and inconsistency, he is not the only one. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the public life of the capital commanded his love, his seemingly inexhaustible energy and much of his spare time. Times, Sunday Times
  • But many creatures besides humans have thrived without them and continue to do just fine, thank you very much. Smithsonian Mag
  • The trade-off between performance, fees and illiquidity will make hedge funds much less alluring in the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • Let us not lose track of the fact that she is a fringe extremist with as much chance of winning state-wide election as Mel Gibson has of winning a commendation from the National Organization of Women. Dylan Brody: Christine O'Donnell Is Just a Stalking Horse in Cute Pumps
  • The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
  • There's way too much duality built-in to such a scheme.
  • Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
  • In August it'll come out in paperback, so it'll be repriced as much cheaper e-book.
  • He uncovers more about his private life including the identity of his fiancé, a point of much speculation until now.
  • Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
  • I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger.
  • She swung her head back in horror at the sight of so much blood.
  • This job title presto changeo is just like the presto changeo of MK77, really bad if Saddam uses it, not so much if the US uses it the same way. Think Progress » Woodward Reveals Important Clues About White House Smear Campaign
  • If it has attractive art and nice looking parts I'm much more inclined to give it a try.
  • It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that.
  • The collegers came from a wide social range, though conditions in College were bad and the boys much neglected until the reforms brought in by Provost Hodgson (1840-53).
  • She was much applauded for her boldness in tackling the unfamiliar Balanchine style.
  • In developing countries like India, it is the wealthier and better-educated who tend to be aspirational; the poor are not yet in a position to aspire to much of anything.
  • Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. Thoughts on Narnia
  • After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero. Times, Sunday Times
  • One number rocked, one swung - stylistically it was all over the place, and much the better for it.
  • It reduces engine shudder and powers the moving parts much more efficiently, being directly connected to the drivetrain. The Sun
  • As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
  • AARON 1: Aaron 8 has gained way too much weight for this role. Look who's talking now: 16 baby Aarons | EW.com
  • He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
  • I put much emphasis on free-and-easy-going.
  • So much for postcrisis efforts to whittle banks down to a more-manageable size. J.P. Morgan Plays a $20 Billion Hand
  • While I am willing to help, I do not have much time available.
  • Much later, Tomlinson realized that the hotel had already been hit and that all the journalists were either fleeing their rooms or helping evacuate the mortally wounded reporters.
  • I miyou so much already and I haven't even left yet!
  • The road itself twisted and contorted as much as the river as it dodged through and around clusters of trees and boulders: indigenous and erratics.
  • But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Chapter 2
  • Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Indeed, she is not much interested in anything you can't eat with a caviar spoon. Times, Sunday Times
  • The partial phase of such an eclipse lasts for much longer, some hours.
  • Its rate of growth was fast — much more like that of an ape than that of a human.
  • The juicy yet slightly overcooked burger would have benefited from a nice charbroiling, the flavor of smoke and fire would have added some much needed depth. NYC Food Guy
  • Much fine sculpture of the period has been found on Paros and Naxos as well as other islands, especially kouroi and korai.
  • So much the better if you have a cache of slightly obscure references that you can dispense, especially if these bear only tangential relationship to what you are discussing.
  • But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
  • Hence statements vary insomuch as the clips themselves vary.
  • He would much rather be judged on whether share prices continue to rise or fall ahead of a bid or profit warning.
  • At least when you are home you can sit in your own Cadillacs for hours in the rush traffic and pollute the air as much you like, destroying the ozone layer and blame it on us smokers.
  • They could endure much pain.
  • I'd rather not talk about it too much because I don't like giving trade secrets away.
  • 'Thank you very much.' 'You're welcome, sir. Have a nice day.'
  • They want to see players show how much it means to score a goal. The Sun
  • It may also have rather too much to do with the perkier housing market. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much of this additional nitrogen is retained or denitrified in the watershed, but a substantial amount enters groundwater and rivers and eventually is delivered to estuaries and the ocean.
  • Life was a continual struggle for them. However, continuous is much more frequent in this sense.
  • He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. 
  • Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 
  • How much do you know about the South: the forests of the southern Appalachians, the swamps and bayous, the barrier islands, keys, and coral reefs?
  • Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
  • The thing the article doesn't mention in much detail, presumably because the writer isn't diabetic, is how awful hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) feels. SeeLight:
  • A cup of coffee in the morning can increase performance, but too much coffee expends energy and can create long-term exhaustion.

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