How to Use a whole lot of in a Sentence

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  • There have been a whole lot of headaches, sneezes and burning eyes.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
  • So there’s a whole lot of things that are open questions.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 8 May 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
  • Storyteller with a gift of gab and a whole lot of chutzpah.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There has been a whole lot of leadership change over there.
    oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There's just a whole lot of care put into curating a space.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That’s a whole lot of ifs that need to fall a certain way for at-home beverage printing to take off.
    Michael Wolf, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Fried foods contain a whole lot of fat and contribute to weight gain—simple as that.
    Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a whole lot of future in what’s happening in the world of country music.
    Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
  • Yes, but not without a whole lot of work that only very few people can ever do.
    Amy Leschke-Kahle, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That can’t be said for three heavyweights in danger of spending a whole lot of money for nothing.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • As if the concept couldn't get any better, they're forced to hunt for said treasure in the Bahamas, meaning blue skies, dreamy seas, and a whole lot of sun.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Put it this way: There was some shiny silver spandex-y stuff in strategic spots, and there was a whole lot of black skin showing.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And, trust me, there’s a whole lot of friction going on at recycling centers.
    Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Yet, when all was said and done, the ice looked pretty lopsided — in puck possession and control of the game and a whole lot of things that mattered most.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There aren’t a whole lot of perks that come with being the senior member of a two-member House delegation.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Braddock, Shelton and a whole lot of other people waited for the album to be released.
    Michael Kosser, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • See Usher disappoint a whole lot of people with his April Fools’ Day joke below.
    Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Parshall: That last comment came from Ron Gordon, the patent agent and former physicist, who didn’t see a whole lot of value in Cleo’s bare-bones answer.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • And a whole lot of fault lines within our society got really exposed.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That same feeling is evident in every band that’s playing some little bar today: There ain’t a whole lot of money in it.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Venus doesn’t get a whole lot of visitors – just the occasional bank robber and Hollywood movie star.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The decision wasn’t rational, but like much of what the series has remarkably produced in bringing the game to the screen, it was executed with a whole lot of heart.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Chaos, anxiety and a whole lot of déjà vu for viewers, many whom had followed real election coverage from home for the last two cycles.
    Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • But at cosmological scales, there isn’t enough matter to counteract the effects of the vacuum—there’s a whole lot of nothing out there.
    Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Birchers never really achieved a whole lot of political power.
    Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There is not a lot of footage of Candy or the people involved, nor a whole lot of photographs, but there is a lot of interview footage from the news of people who actually came and wanted to be part of the trial.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 May 2023
  • While Tesla deserves the fanfare for its Nürburgring achievement, keep in mind there’s a whole lot of faster non-production vehicles out there setting ridiculous records on the same track.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 5 June 2023
  • This is a picture that could do with a little bit of scenery-chewing and a whole lot of sensationalism — anything that would make its middling mystery plot more exciting.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Rossini wrote an opera buffa, an essentially frivolous piece with a whole lot of gorgeous music.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023

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