How to Use many in a Sentence

many

adjective
  • The [lunch scene] was many pages.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
  • Warsh has a strong track record and many fans.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The crew of about 10 has many of those.
    — Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In this case, the many years were many, many, many years.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • And many of the crew were women.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What time will each band go on, and how many stages will there be?
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • People have many sides to them.
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • That may have been the case many years ago, but not anymore.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2026
  • To keep costs down, many switched to a high-deductible health plan.
    — Jackie Fortiér, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And for reef fish and many coastal species, that story can hold true.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Hill said there won’t be many changes this year, except for one part.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There are many, many, many emo songs built from texts from kids to parents.
    — Nathan Brackett, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Because many hands were in at the making of it?
    — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • As such, many of the conclusions are long out of date.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And many can be made without pastry dough.
    — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Better yet, many of them are on sale and prices start at just $8.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But writing the thriller did involve many phone calls.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Decades of rising costs have prompted many to make this choice.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The two players repeat this process many times.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
  • Jessi was many many miles away, doing her own thing.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2026
  • Hopefully, this will be the first of many more.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 25 May 2026
  • And many lawyers resigned in protest from the firms that settled.
    — Fabio Bertoni, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • However, many have stopped at the first step.
    — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • But when the ball was snapped, many of those defenders peeled back.
    — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • First, many people have spent their lives studying these books.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Herein, begins the first of many game drives.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Would this rhetoric spread and become mainstream among many of my peers?
    — Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This is because in many cases, snakes don’t make their own holes.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 July 2026
  • And there are many, many more artists throwing their hats in the ring for wins next year.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In many ways, the result felt inevitable.
    — Kristian Winfield, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2026

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