How to Use so in a Sentence

so

adverb
  • The test was not so very hard after all.
  • I don't think they can score twice in so short a time.
  • He looked so handsome in his suit.
  • We are all so excited about the trip.
  • He dislikes her so much that he won't even talk to her.
  • I feel so much better after taking that nap.
  • I'm so happy that you decided to join us for dinner.
  • There has always been an interest in genetic cloning, but never more so than in recent years.
  • Her hair was soaked in blood, so was the bed and the floor.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The queue to do so was, at some points, up to 15 hours long.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Last week Palau was the first, with Chile and the Maldives soon to do so.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • And Face the Nation will be back in a minute, so stay with us.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The food was meant for me, so my husband left to find some lunch.
    Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
  • This wasn’t the first time Berger has done so, but it’s the first time in a few games.
    Seth Tow, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The Senate's ethics rules are not so clear cut, though.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2021
  • So don’t even tell me and try to compare your life to mine.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The mantle is very hot, so there's no way for ice to form there.
    Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And so far there are few peeps about the horrors of gambling.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
  • If so, tell us about them in the comments or shoot me an email at amaloney@nola.com.
    Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Thank you so very much for summoning the courage to share it.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The audience would be vast, so the song had to be good.
    Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The woman’s back was turned to my friend, so my friend was unaware of it.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2022
  • No, just so there’s no problem with tea in the morning.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The young painters left the Louvre to drink and argue over what was to be done, and the cafés gave them places to do so.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But so are the bits and pieces of chance, recollected in the book, that made both movies.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The woman claimed she had been told to do so by an unknown man.
    John Benson, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Don’t be so quick to rake up and dispose of dead plant matter.
    Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The auto swap at PIR is outdoors, so dress for the weather.
    oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And so, four young men can just roll up with automatic weapons to a vast Moscow mall and set fire to it, after shooting dozens dead.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Indeed, the nuns in this orphanage aren’t exactly warm and fuzzy, looking so menacing that horror appears to be their vocation.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024

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