How to use "lot" in a sentence

There are also a lot of very large rocks called boulders, stuck between the canyon walls

For all of us, this is more important than earning a lot of money

Here, the canyon walls are a lot narrower

The boulder is a lot heavier than I am.

That's a lot of rock.

When I finish, I can see that Steve wants to ask me a lot of questions.

I've learned a lot from that choice

You know a lot about sea life

There were a lot of animals and birds in the water

'There are a lot of cats without a smile, but a smile without a cat! Now that's very strange!' Alice said.

Under the tree was a big table with a lot of chairs round it

'There are a lot of places,' Alice said

There were a lot of teacups on the table.

After them there were a lot more people

After a short time, there were a lot of people round the Cat

'I know a lot of the animals and birds here,' she thought

The film was about a man and a woman, Bonnie and Clyde, and there was a lot of shooting and killing

Well, I laughed a lot

There were a lot of people there, and Jenny was wearing a long dress and singing

After about a hundred hours on a bus, me and a lot of other new young soldiers arrived there

Bubba and I decided that we would get a shrimp boat when we got home again, and catch shrimps, and make a lot of money

There was still a lot of shooting going on, but I played a song

There were about two thousand people waiting for us at San Francisco airport when we got off the plane! What a surprise! A lot of them had beards and long hair

A lot of army people were there, and they immediately started shaking my hand and telling me that I was a brave man and that they were pleased to meet me.

The President was a great big old man who talked like somebody from Texas, and there were a lot of people standing round him in the flower garden.

The President asked me a lot of questions about Vietnam and the army, but I just said, 'Yes, it's OK' or shook my head to say no, and after several minutes of this we were both silent.

There were a lot of people waiting to go in, so I went round to the back of the place and sat on the ground

There was a lot of trouble there

A lot of people came out at lunch-time

'You can make a lot more money,' he told me.

Jenny wasn't happy about the wrestling but I won a lot of money - sometimes by winning fights, sometimes by losing them because Mike told me to lose them

'You can make a lot of money from chess,' he said

They make a lot of films in Los Angeles

A lot of people say that they married an idiot, but they don't know what it's like to marry a real one

Annie drank a lot and her marriage broke down

It was a busy morning, with a lot of people already in the streets or getting up, and heavy traffic for the market

When they saw a lot of blood flowing from the woman's neck, they ran to find a policeman

Then he saw a body lying on the bed and a lot of blood

But on October 3rd shopkeepers complained that they were losing a lot of business because people were afraid to go out shopping.

When he sees how miserable we are, he'll give us a lot of money, you'll see.'

I'll bring some friends round, and we'll make sure he gives us a lot more money.'

People were running around, and there was a lot of noise, but Marius paid little attention

"You work in Leeds, but you don't drive? I think your sports car can get you there a lot faster than the bus to Keighley and then the train to Leeds."

There are a lot of them up in the creek

Yes, I think I might have a lot more to confess tomorrow

A simulator cost five units per hour, which was a lot - but it was worth it for the escape it offered from the city.

Oh, we had a lot of fun!" Gran laughed gently

"But I've read a lot of them and..

You can earn a lot of money for it - a real salary, like your mom's."

It costs a lot to live in an earth apartment - you need constant lighting and heating

Sala did the same with another dolphin and they had a lot of fun, diving down through the water and back up to the surface with a splash.

Cham's parents asked a lot of questions, and Leti seemed to have an answer for everything

We've been having a lot of fun! This week, they gave us the chance to try snowboarding as well as skiing."

They'd lose a lot of money if he comes out."

We learn a lot about how the government looks after us

I wish I was wearing a lot of make-up and had expensive clothes.'

'I don't want a lot of fuss.'

'Looking after Manderley takes a lot of my time

Frank Crawley told me a lot about Manderley

'Forgive me if I've asked you a lot of rude questions, my dear

'It must have been a lot of work,' I said

'Did Rebecca use the cottage a lot?'

Rebecca knew a lot about china.'

'I think he came to Manderley quite a lot when Rebecca was alive

There were a lot of letters thanking us for the Ball

Recently she'd been under a lot of pressure, both personally and professionally

To Tina, Stryker said, "But if it's flattery you need - and I'm sure you already get a lot of it, lovely as you are - no one in Vegas can flatter with more charm and style than Helen."

But there's a lot of sense in what Joel says, so I'm going to try to play it cool."

"They wrecked a lot of stuff-"

"Why don't you wait right where you are? You can watch these nice people beat me out of a lot of money."

I'll get a cone, and then we can go outside, walk around the parking lot

Heart attacks are more frequent around the slot machines than anywhere else in the casino, and a lot of the victims are people who've just lined up three bars and won a bundle.

"But my favorite is what we call the 'time-warp syndrome.' People come here from a lot of dull places, and Vegas is like an adult Disneyland

Then, as they stepped out of the rear entrance of the hotel and walked along the edge of the parking lot in the seventy-degree winter sunshine, he said, "So what did you want to talk about?"

There was a lot of bitterness on my part

That makes a lot of sense, Tina."

These last few days, as your show's been getting ready to open, I've had the feeling you might finally realize you need something more in life, something a lot more emotionally satisfying than whatever it is you can get out of just producing stage shows."

I'm sure there's a lot of work to do on a show like Magyck! Even after, it opens

A whole hell of a lot of gloom.

A lot of our regular junketeers and high rollers couldn't make it to the VIP opening of Magyck! I'd like you to get their names from the computer, plus a list of the wedding anniversaries of those who're married."

"The casino bosses will like it too, 'cause a lot of our high rollers will probably make an extra trip this year

He was so good that he could safely take young boys into the Sierras for sixteen years, a challenge a lot of other winter survival experts wouldn't touch

that alone will require a lot more manpower than the police can spare for anything except a murder case, a hot kidnapping, or maybe a narcotics investigation."

Her inability to accept the truth was a lot worse than yours

"Well, I've had a lot of martial arts training

I can't take a whole lot of credit for that

We represented some people no one else would touch, entrepreneurs who had a lot of good ideas but not much money for start-up legal fees

It'll tie up a hell of a lot of the court's time."

The court saves a lot of time and effort

He had a few chores to finish before she came, so they wouldn't have to spend a lot of time doing galley labor as they had done last night

"I don't keep a lot of money here."

"It's a lot, thirty or forty questions altogether, but it won't take long if you just sit down over there and cooperate."

"The truth is a lot worse," Elliot said

We've got a lot to discuss

There's bound to be a lot we can learn from him."

Nevertheless, he was an intelligence agent a hell of a lot longer than he's been a judge, and I guess breeding tells

If you want to purchase a false passport, a counterfeit driver's license, or anything of that nature, you can pick and choose from several of the best document-forgery artists in the world, because this is where a lot of them live

"But even if Kennebeck's bosses have a lot of influence with the Vegas police, would the cops let us be killed? Would they really let it go that far?"

Then a lot of people are going to be pushing for an exhumation of all those boys

It was in a box with a lot of other magazines."

A roadside diner stood on the right, and Elliot pulled into the parking lot

A single mercury-vapor pole lamp at the entrance shed fuzzy purple light over the first third of the parking lot

As he and Tina walked across the parking lot toward the diner, Elliot couldn't shake the feeling that someone or something was watching them

But if we go to the press in Los Angeles or New York or some other city, the reporters there aren't going to have a whole lot of interest in it unless they see an aspect of the story that lifts it out of the local-interest category

Killing all those people and trying to fake an accident - that was a whole lot riskier than letting the kids come back with their half-baked stories about seeing something peculiar in the mountains."

There might be a lot he can tell us

She had the same feeling of being watched that she'd had in the parking lot a short while ago.

Somehow, his abilities have grown a lot stronger

They stared out at the dark parking lot and at the fenced storage yard full of fifty-gallon drums that lay beyond the lot

"But if he can send dreams to you," Elliot said, "why wouldn't he simply transmit a neat, clear message telling you what's happened to him and where he is? Wouldn't that get him the help he wants a lot faster? Why would he be so unclear and indirect? He should send a concise mental message, psychic E-mail from the Twilight Zone, make it a lot easier for you to understand."

After all, the last couple of years we were married, Michael was running around with a lot of other women, spending most of his time away from home, and Danny felt even more abandoned than I did

It seems to me as if you're just setting yourself up for a bad fall, a lot of pain."

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

I'm sure he wants to ask you a lot of questions."

There are a lot of airports within the range of that little Cessna."

Above the lights that cast a frosty glow on the airport parking lot, the heavily shrouded sky was moonless, starless, perfectly black

He slammed the trunk lid and surveyed the snow-dusted cars in the parking lot

The kid's a lot more important than they are

"A lot of pain and loneliness."

They abandoned the Chevrolet in a public parking lot, four blocks from Harrah's.

That doesn't help us a whole hell of a lot

But that covers a hell of a lot of rugged terrain

"A lot's at stake here, Billy

Apparently, Billy liked his view of the world to be as neat and uncluttered as everything else about him; if he started believing in ghosts, he'd have to reconsider his opinions about a lot of other things too, and then life would become intolerably messy.

And foolhardy as that might be, it does a lot for a person's self-respect."

It's in a public lot about three blocks from here."

"A lot of traffic's been through here recently."

"He's never seen us or the Explorer, and this isn't the sort of place where there's a lot of new or unexpected traffic."

"Doesn't look like there's a lot of people inside," Tina said

They wouldn't want a lot of daily traffic coming in and out of here on a forest road that's supposed to be used only by state wildlife officers

And a lot of people around him, a lot of people protecting him, people in research and people in charge of project security - they're also megalomaniacs

And not a lot of those."

they're now supposed to be our new friends, but they keep developing bacteriological weapons, new and more virulent strains of viruses, because they're broke, and this is a lot cheaper than other weapons systems

That's something a lot of us do during the winter

There are a lot of people here who have some sense of social responsibility about this work

He made a lot of money there

'He did not want any friends,' John Openshaw went on, 'and he often drank a lot

'There'll be a lot of people in the streets, so I think that you'll be all right

She rarely answered questions and spent a lot of her time sewing, hut her favourite activity seemed to be catching flies, which she always released unharmed after examining them carefully.

It has grown quite a lot, but I recognized it all right.'

'Ah, yes I heard that Madame Delambre had been writing a lot, but we could find nothing but the short note informing us that she was taking her own life.'

'There is a lot of wickedness in the world

And, Mrs Clement, you are the only person in the village I can talk to, except a lot of old women.'

He stole a lot of valuable things.'

And a lot of people would know about it

He talked about it a lot

He was determined to punish him, so he had a lot to drink and then shot him

So one lot of silver must be a copy

'Well, that explains a lot

But I'm sorry for a lot of people I don't like

'Yes, a lot of hope, despite all this destruction

Now I was more used to them, and was in a good position with a lot of time to study them properly

This made me feel a lot better, and the noise of the pump did not bring a tentacle in through the opening.

There was a hat lying in the mud, and a lot of broken glass with blood on it.

After a lot of trouble, I managed to break into a pub and find some food and drink

A lot of bad words fly through the air.

"I like little Anne a lot

The entry on the next page also took a lot of space, recording a double marriage

In the past, a lot of people believed that women were not as intelligent as men

"We have a lot of statues of famous men

She was brave, and she spoke about girls' education a lot

In the USA, a lot of black women have fought for freedom

Women have made a lot of progress in the last 100 years

It uses a lot of social media - like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - and has been led by the MeToo movement.

In the 1980s, she spent a lot of time in prison because of her work

This was because a lot of men did not come home from the war, so women had to work to look after their families.

In 2018, it was discovered that the BBC was paying some men a lot more than women for the same jobs

She speaks the language and knows a lot about China

Women still do most of the work in the home, which means that many of them are working a lot more than men

But men scientists in France gave Marie a lot of problems, and she never got enough money for her work

Since those days, a lot of female scientists have won the Nobel Prize - women like Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Gertrude B

Later, Nancy's father made a lot of money in business, and the children were able to get an education

She changed Ceylon a lot, and she gave it the new name of Sri Lanka.

Hillary Clinton is an example of a woman who has achieved a lot in politics, and there are others

Women still have a lot to do in politics

But the numbers change a lot in different countries

Amelia achieved a lot in the next few years

Fanny won a lot of races when she was young

The history of women's empowerment is long, and a lot of progress has been made

MeToo was used a lot from October 2017 on social media to show that there is a lot of sexual assault and harassment of women, everywhere in the world

Because of this, everyone learned that there is a lot of sexual assault in the film business

Their swords move quickly and make a lot of noise

The next morning there is a lot of noise at the Presidio Don.