How to Use very in a Sentence

very

1 of 2 adverb

• This came today and looked very thin in the package...wrong!
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most of all, the Bray School building is a very rare survival.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
• The setting of where Bibi lives is very important to me.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• So the impact of the strike on the festival will be very limited.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
• The union’s workings are complex and the proposals are very broad.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
• The devices were not very complex and likely did not explode at all, the source said.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• The easiest way to clean your oven racks is to fill a bathtub with very hot water.
  — Janece Maze, Country Living, 4 Apr. 2023
• Some of those who believe in the FBI’s involvement are very firm in their opinions.
  — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Thermos is very easy to clean, even without a dishwasher.
  — Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• And there’s something very playful to me and very humorous about that.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• There's the potential for long-term serious harm for a very short-term gain.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• At Loewe, they were given a very (very) high waist and replaced suit pants, redefining the lines of the officewear trend.
  — Alexandre Marain, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• The 41-year-old said there was very little damage to her house, except for some mild flooding in her garage.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Her very special love of all though was her brother Bubba.
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• At least 60 hatchlings appear to have survived out of more than 90 eggs—a very healthy ratio.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Rock has become a very obscure kind of label to call something.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
• For that reason, the community got very tight-knit very fast.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• His shoots are very abbreviated: the first film took nine days, the second one six days.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
• Overall, our team was very happy with the abundance of outlets and ports throughout the cabin.
  — Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
• To have to remain in a band together post-that was very difficult.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Mandalorian is just fun TV with very little faults.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• One of them that Hollywood has been pulling out yet again for fall is the little black dress — but with a very practical twist.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
• Those have been the things that have really brought the United States and Israel so very close together.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• The past two months have been very difficult, Cedeno says.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 31 Oct. 2023
• Some of the very small freezers on the market seem too small to be worth the investment or are only helpful if freezing one item.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2023
• Juwan Johnson had his family on the sidelines cheering him on in a very special start to the NFL season.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• This cream blush has a very pigmented formula, so a little goes a long way.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 9 Apr. 2024
• But a consecutive American attempt missed very high, and very wide, to the right.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
• But the idea of working with reflective surfaces has become very, very...
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
• Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills, which apparently does not include embodying the Easter Bunny.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024

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very

2 of 2 adjective

• Her chin tilt is the very axis on which the show spins.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• These artists were now truly going to be singing, from their very souls, about the cause.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• This is a song that David wrote at the very beginning of his career.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• All these testimonies are the wording of the very people.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Keep the faith and root down into the depth of your very being in order to get yourself there.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Offense had some success in two minute there at the very end of the series, had some success in the red area.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
• But her nails do have a very summery — if not downright springy — feel.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Oct. 2023
• With some irony, Jones presents their sleuthing through a mix of computer and cellphone screens – the very places L’espérance doesn’t want to be.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• The tannins are velvety, and the finish goes on and on before a bright splash of acidity at the very end.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
• In the process, the movie frivolously normalizes that discourse in that very milieu.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• Yet the business plan for care.com was born out of that very experience.
  — Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• These running shoes will fuel that very fire and keep him comfortable in the process.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• The City Council seemed convinced the Andersons planned to violate the very essence of Roanoke.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
• What to Consider They're best reserved for very snowy or cold days.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
• One of the saddest ironies in the music world is the fact that songwriters are at the very bottom of the streaming economy.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• But as the strike goes on, the people who will feel it the worst are those very workers, which gives them an incentive to settle.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• And the very end of our story is the chapter that will finally reveal the fullness of that meaning.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Still, the very fact of the movie’s existence continued to puzzle and delight her.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• At the very end of the trailer, a new character, rumored to be named Jason, is revealed.
  — Lily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• Hollywood spent a huge part of last year on strike to illustrate this very point.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
• That scene in particular is one that developed over time and changed at the very end.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• And jeweler Neil Lane will be sitting in the front row of Gerry’s family side, in the very end seat.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
• Saying the wrong thing might have endangered his business or his very life.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Maybe the most surprising moment comes at the very beginning.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• At the very top of the pantheon, F1 Garage is considered the most luxurious option at the entire race.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The citrus pecking order goes cuties, then lemons for lemon bars, then blood oranges, then G&T limes, then kumquats, and at the very bottom of the list, grapefruit.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• This achieves a central goal of the cocktailian bar: The very idea of fancy artichoke juice sends the light-beer crowd running for the exits.
  — Eric Felten, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
• His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2022
• The bigger problem, however, is that the very idea that such a deal could be wrought is a complete fantasia.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Science of Siblings is a new series exploring the ways our siblings can influence us, from our money and our mental health all the way down to our very molecules.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024