How to use "much" in a sentence

I chip at the rock for another hour and remove as much as the piece that came off before

I've done quite well, but one thought still worries me: I haven't chipped much rock from the boulder

After telling them how much I love them, there is only one more thing to say

My water won't last much longer

'He didn't say much to any of us

And even with the sock there is too much pain in my left hand to continue.

How much longer can I survive? Death could come at any moment

My heart is going much too fast

All of us enjoyed it very much.

I don't want to be my friend Mabel, because she doesn't know very much

'Oh, I'm getting much taller!' she cried

'It was much nicer at home

'You don't know much,' said the Duchess.

I don't like bananas much

She looked at him and said, 'I won't get you anything - not as much as a glass of warm river-water, you pig!' Then she looked at me and said, 'And how many babies have you killed today, you big ape?'

There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor

All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as to any other

And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

The Union is much older than the Constitution

Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

What is this non-cooperation, about which you have heard much, and why do we want to offer this non-cooperation?

So much for the non-violent part of non-cooperation

Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for

This much we pledge - and more.

But Mary Ann needed alcohol too, and she was drinking too much

There was not much furniture: an old table and two old chairs stood on the bare, dirty floor

He lived a simple life with his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, and his old servant, Madame Magloire, and he was much loved by the people in the town

'How much will you give me for it?' Fantine asked.

That child, for instance - you've no idea how much she costs

'We love that child very much

'How much do you need?' the old man asked, taking an old leather wallet from the pocket of his coat.

There was not much furniture in the room - just an old bed, a mattress on the floor, a table, some chairs and a lighted stove

His father, a brave officer who had fought for Napoleon and nearly died at the Battle of Waterloo, had really loved him and his mother very much

He did not earn very much money, but it was enough for the rent and simple meals

Marius was too much in love to think clearly

'It gave me so much happiness just to look at her, and now, through my stupidity, I've lost even that.'

The Jondrette family had been Marius's neighbours for many months, but he had never before paid much attention to them

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

'I love this picture as much as I love my two daughters

Marius, however, who had been going to fire the gun as a signal for the police to arrive, shook so much that he almost fell off the cupboard.

This was too much for Marius.

I love you so much.'

'I love her so much

Marius told his grandfather all about Cosette and how much he loved her

As he was eating, Toussaint told him about the fighting in the city, but he did not pay much attention

At last, exhausted, he stopped beneath a large grille that brought him much-needed light and fresh air

'Grandfather,' Marius said at last, 'I'm feeling much better already

Marius did not speak much to Valjean

You're upsetting me very much, and I don't know why you're being so cruel.'

He did not return to the house again, and Cosette was too busy with married life to think too much about him

Marius and Cosette both did their best to raise Valjean's spirits, to show him how much they loved and needed him, to fill him with the strength and the desire to live again

You'll feel some grief for me, but not too much

The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."

"Hello handsome," she always says to me, "another day at the office?" And I never say much, but I do not have to: we understand each other without words

For five minutes Oliver rows, and soon the jetty and the hotel look much smaller, while the attendant is almost impossible to see in the half-light of the new evening.

"He seems to like that bag very much." says Darwin.

No, it is something much worse

"There's not much to tell

There are fewer trees now, and the sound is louder, much louder

But Owen does not like to think about that too much

And he wasn't a funny guy, and he didn't have much luck with the ladies

You're the best! I love you so much." The hour on the beach was soon over

"It's like a pod experience, but you stay in for much longer," explained Ding

They're saying that the study programs in the pod will make you much more employable when you come out."

"Thank you so much, again," she said

Now she spent as much time in the garden as possible, even when it was dark or raining

They did not want anyone going into the contaminated world beyond - it was much too dangerous, they said.

There was so much you could see on the ultranet or at the simulator center

It all made too much sense

Now that they were actually on their way, it was all so much fun.

He held on to a dolphin's tail and it began to play with him, pulling him along much faster than he could swim

It was all too much

But on the walkway home, he didn't talk as much as usual

She loved him so much

I've been so busy at work the last few days, I feel I've not been home much at all."

She'd been about to do some studying, but watching a love story-stream was a much better idea

Sala couldn't believe how much her life was suddenly changing, but she didn't try to discuss it with Cham

Like your grandmother, because she stays at home so much."

"A note is much easier than a person

"But why? Why would they do that? And how could they know that wild roses mean so much to Gran?"

"There's not much," said Gran, handing Sala a little cup

It would make everything much, much easier, wouldn't it?"

He shouldn't be enjoying it that much, should he?"

So much had changed in just a few short weeks

"I've missed you so much." Cham smiled his lovely warm smile

Cham doesn't know much about the rebellion, does he?" she said

"So there's not much he can report."

She missed the real Cham so much

It had been so much fun, in spite of their lives being so limited

"You don't know how much this means to me."

'And she's much older than you too

'But I've enjoyed this hour so much,' de Winter said

If he loved his home so much, why had he left it?

The "R" was tall, much bigger than the other letters

There's too much to be done.'

I want to show you Manderley so much.'

I felt better, much better now.

He's much older than you, you know.'

There was far too much food for two people

'Oh, nothing much,' said Maxim

It was the normal Manderley breakfast, but far too much for two people

It was closer than I thought, much closer

Beatrice was tall, broad-shouldered and very much like Maxim

'I haven't seen much of it yet,' I said

'You know,' she said, 'you are much younger than I expected

Tell me, do you love Maxim very much?'

I could see that he loved it as much as Maxim did.

He loves Manderley so much

'Someone much smarter, I think

'I want you to be happy so much

I was much happier now

'I am so much older than you.'

I'm afraid your husband doesn't like me very much

Favell drove away noisily and much too fast

I knew now how much Mrs Danvers hated me.

'I'd like you to come very much, Beatrice,' I said.

'You are much too thin

What have you been doing with yourself? Have you done much sketching? Did you like the books I sent you? Have you had anyone to stay?'

At once, I felt much happier

'I missed you so much,' I said

We used to enjoy the Manderley Ball so much.'

'I'm looking forward to it so much.'

'Thank you so much for a wonderful evening

'I love you so much,' he whispered.

'I thought about Manderley too much,' he said

How far away that seemed! I felt calmer, much older now

In twenty-four hours, you have grown so much older.'

'It won't last much longer,' he told me

'I'd much rather stay,' I said

He could not know how much Maxim had told me

Thank you very much, goodbye.'

Thank you very much.'

'Thank you very much,' Maxim said.

Maxim began to drive faster, much faster.

Gradually, day by day, week by week, she had put Danny behind her, with sorrow, with guilt, with tears and much bitterness, but also with firmness and determination

There was so much to do in the morning

Although she wasn't much of a drinker, indulging in nothing more than a glass of wine now and then, with no capacity whatsoever for hard liquor, she finished the bourbon in two swallows

She didn't need that much time to shower, apply her makeup, and dress, so she decided to pack some of Danny's belongings

She was drinking too much

That was the term by which casino employees still referred to local, elderly women whose social lives revolved around an obsessive interest in one-armed bandits, even though the nickel machines were pretty much ancient history

She loved them as much as life itself, and she knew they truly wanted her with them; they were not inviting her out of a misguided sense of guilt and obligation

She threw her arms around him and, much to her surprise began to cry with happiness

As she listed her blessings, Tina was astonished at how much difference one year could make in a life

She was pretty much convinced of that.

Meanwhile, he's drinking too much

There's so much going on, so much to see and do, constant excitement, so people get out of their normal rhythms

If he was faking innocence, he was a much better actor than she thought he was, and she thought she knew him well indeed

Well, not her ambition as much as Michael's childish attitude toward it

He didn't tell her directly, but his behavior said as much

Once, long ago, she had loved him very much

But with Magyck! Running successfully, you won't have all that much to do

We'll wait until it's running smoothly, until it doesn't need much of your time

Why on earth would I? What do you have to give me that I can't get elsewhere? You've never been much of a giver anyway, Michael

You only give when you're sure of getting back twice as much

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

And as it turned out, Danny didn't have much time left."

She inspected her face in the rearview mirror to see how much damage the crying jag had done

If she needed to know how much money each of these people earned in a year, the computer could tell her

Because so much material in the hotel's files was extremely confidential information about high rollers, and because the Pyramid's list of favored customers would be of enormous value to competitors, only approved people could obtain this data, and a record was kept of everyone who accessed it

What stranger could possibly hate her so much?

Nevertheless, the room was much cooler than it had been only minutes ago.

"Most attorneys talk too much."

"I don't think the police would be much help

But the cops are a literal bunch, not much impressed by implied threats

After so much talk about death, she needed a glimpse of movement, action, life; and although the Strip sometimes was grubby in the flat glare of the desert sun, the boulevard was always, day or night, bustling and filled with life.

"I don't need much time to plan a meal

The project became a vocation for her, and I spent nearly as much time on it as I did on my legal practice

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

Good, healthy lovemaking with a man who cared for her would have helped her recover much faster than she had done, for sex was the antithesis of death, a joyous celebration of life, a denial of the tomb's existence.

He was convinced that, with her arrival on the scene, he had been granted too much happiness, too fast, too soon, too easily

He wasn't asking the judge for much of a favor

They only tell us as much as we need to know

And they wouldn't have wasted so much time coaxing him to cooperate; they would have used force without hesitation

Not much remained to be done: The contents of three cartons in the back of the deep closet had to be sorted

Suddenly he realized she was in as much danger as he was

He grabbed her arm, swung her away from the burning house, the sight of which affected her as much as if it had been a hypnotist's slowly swinging pocket watch.

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

It's just too much," she said.

Most of the questions were concerned with how much Tina knew about the true nature of the Sierra accident, how much she had told Elliot, how much she had told Michael, and with how many people she had discussed it

Chilled, Tina said, "But how much could the kids have seen? You're the one who said security was easy to maintain when one of these installations is located in the wilderness

Maybe there was so much at stake that the security men at the installation decided Jaborski and Lincoln had to die

In fact, they didn't talk much at all

That's why they've been so much different from any dreams I've had before, so much stronger and more vivid."

He can't send 'concise mental messages' because he doesn't have that much power or control

"But there isn't much I can do

Even if someone had been monitoring that area from an overhead camera, there would not have been much for him to see.

"Anyway, even if we're spread a bit thin, it doesn't matter much

"And it sounds to me as if Bellicosti knows too much about it."

I don't have much to say about research policy around here."

It swept through the graveyard, fluting between the headstones and the larger monuments, whispering a promise of more snow, much more than the meager flurries it now carried.

There wasn't much of a chance that a trap had been set for them so soon

Lesser amounts, ranging from only one hundred million to as much as half a billion, were secretly extracted from the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and other government bodies on an annual basis.

"I guess I'm offering too much resistance

"And we don't have much time," Tina said

"Pretty much."

Tina said, "Elliot, what happens if we stay here, hiding out until we can think of an alternative? How much time do we have? Not much

I don't care how much of a hurry you're in

"Not much insurance, but better than nothing."

If the rescue attempt went smoothly, as Tina's dream seemed to predict, they wouldn't have any need for much of what they bought

That would draw too much attention

The hole in the guy's shoulder was reassuringly clean, and it wasn't bleeding much.

Then, even with Danny jamming the enemy's weapons, she and Elliot would be able to escape only if they slaughtered their way out, and she knew that neither of them had the stomach for that much murder, perhaps not even in self-defense.

She could not have said anything else that would have had a fraction as much impact on them as the words she'd spoken

It wasn't much of a smile; it quivered on his lips as if sustaining it required more energy than lifting a hundred-pound weight

But he hugged her very hard, and again she was surprised by how much strength he could still summon from his devastated body

But if we closed up shop, if we stopped doing this sort of research just because we were afraid of men like Tamaguchi winding up in charge of it, we'd be conceding so much ground to our enemies that we wouldn't survive for long

Danny's eyes held too much pain, too much knowledge

'Under the steam hammer! Please come quickly, Francois! I can't bear it much longer!'

And I'm very much afraid we shall never understand, unless perhaps your sister-in-law should..

'Protect my boy from what? Don't you understand? I'm here so that Henri won't be the son of a woman who went to the guillotine for having murdered his father! Don't you understand that I would much prefer the guillotine to the living death of this asylum?'

'Drink this and I'll show you something much more amazing.'

The horror was too much for me

And yet I knew that if I looked at the horror for much longer, I would go on screaming for the rest of my life.

Colonel Protheroe would hear about it - and things would be made much worse for her.

The man was much better, and his wife said she had not telephoned me.'

And yet, she didn't seem so much shocked as - frightened.'

'Surely, Lettice, a yellow hat won't be much good to you just now?'

'Not much

He had been dead much longer than that.'

'So you don't know much about the world

'I didn't hear much,' she told him.

You don't spend much time cleaning a room, do you?" And she pointed at some dust on the table

The only difference I could see was that one was much dirtier than the others.

Just because you're much older than I am, you think that I might like other men more than you.'

I would very much like to talk to you

So he came back here with Mr Hawes last night and, I think, managed to put some much stronger pills in Mr Hawes' box

There is not much more to tell

Anyway, she went to see father and told him she was dying and wanted to see me so much

Then Miss Marple said, 'I hope dear Griselda is not doing too much

But people are so blind that no writer, before the end of the nineteenth century, suggested that much more intelligent life had developed there than on Earth

Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

It seems that the Martians calculated their journey very cleverly - their mathematical knowledge appears to be much more developed than ours

Even the daily papers woke up to these events at last, and there was much discussion of their cause

By the afternoon the appearance of the common had changed very much

The atmosphere of Earth, we now know, contains much more oxygen than there is on Mars

This certainly gave the Martians much greater strength

And we also learned that the Martians were so mechanically clever that they did not need to use their bodies very much.

Many people had heard of the cylinder, of course, and talked about it, but it did not have as much effect as a political event.

An ordinary engineer is much better educated than a common soldier, and they discussed, with some intelligence, the odd conditions of the possible fight.

The Martians took as much notice of him as we would of a cow.

The strength of the Martians worried me so much that I had decided to take my wife to the south coast, and leave the country with her immediately

London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night not knowing much and caring even less, was woken in the early hours of Monday morning to a real sense of danger.

That day the refugees began to realize how much they needed food

No one worried about that very much

The cylinder had gone right through it and made a large hole in the ground, much larger than the pit I had looked into in Woking

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

When I reached the Thames, I drank as much water as I could

It was interesting that he, an ordinary soldier, seemed to have a much better understanding of the situation than I, a professional writer.

It is obvious that he likes this particular pipe very much.'

'How do you know that he likes it very much?' I asked.

So, this man must like his pipe very much if he prefers to mend it instead of buying a new one with the same money.'

How much do you want?"

We all knew that our illnesses were caused by too much work.

'Our minds are tired from too much work

I never saw a man laugh so much

I laughed so much that I dropped the shirt into the river again.

I didn't answer him for a while, because I was laughing so much

'Take as much as you want, and leave the rest.'

'Thank you very much,' said George, looking around

I was doing too much work on this trip

I always think that I work too much

You can't give me too much work

Too much sunshine is boring

'It's much more interesting to go to the Alhambra Theatre in London,' said Harris.

Life is not much fun if you work as a typist in an office, and you earn so little that you can't even buy yourself a nice pair of shoes

'I like it very much, too..

Find out something she wants very much but cannot get in this country.'

'James, there is something much more serious.'

And Connie wondered why he said that with so much bitterness

'I can't say his name; it upsets me too much! Tell me the names of the aristocrats you know.'

But even so we love each other very much

"'The other reason I like Anne is that she looks very much like Laura

Her sudden kindness and sympathy was too much for me

They are married! My dear sister has gone! I am crying so much I cannot write anymore.

Eleanor Fairlie was an irritating woman who talked too much and wore expensive clothes

The Count's influence over Percival is much stronger than Laura's

And even though they are opposed, and even though I will be victorious, I want Miss Halcombe to know how much I admire her diary and that nothing in it contributed to my victory and her failure.

Lady Glyde won't live much longer.'

The entry above - recording the marriage of a man called Walter - took much more space

Perhaps Pesca knew the Count? Perhaps the Count really was a spy - a spy in a much more important sense than Laura had intended when she called him by that name.

I haven't changed much over the years, but perhaps this man has

They wrote that she changed society very much.

It was hard, dirty work, and there was not much free time

People will remember Amelia Earhart because she was brave and because she achieved so much for women and flight

Today, it is much easier for women to become astronauts.

But Billie Jean saw that women tennis players did not win as much money as men

The women's game was much worse than the men's game, he said

But thanks to the women in this book - and others - women are now much more equal in society than they have ever been before.

"Don Carlos,'' says the Captain, "I like Lolita very much