How to Use not much in a Sentence

not much

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  • Add it all up and there’s not much room for shopping the free agent aisles.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • But sticking your head in the sand is not much of a long-term strategy.
    — Wes Marshall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • There is not a single stoplight on the island, and not much need for stop signs.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • The baroque bob is all about the styling (and surprisingly, not much about the cut).
    — Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • That’s one thing, because that is a problem, but other than that, not much.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • But this is not much of a concern when leveraging select savings accounts.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Outside of the fact that her dress was Dior, not much else has been revealed about Swift's wedding gown.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • There's not much that's better than sitting on a back porch on a warm summer evening with a glass of wine in hand, chatting with friends.
    — Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • For gardeners, however, shade can feel like a limiting factor where not much will grow.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2026
  • The atmosphere was not much better in my upper-level seminars.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Miami is always hot and humid in the summer, so there’s not much of a forecast change for South Florida.
    — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • The trial was a bit incoherent, with not much solid evidence presented.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • There’s not much that Wrigley Field hasn’t seen in its 112-year history as the home of the Chicago Cubs.
    — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • At first, the Valhalla’s cabin feels quite small; there’s not much of a gap between the steering wheel and the top of the windscreen, resulting in a letterbox-like view.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Every once in a while a crow calls, but there’s not much structure to it, with the sounds listlessly bouncing off the walls imposed by the five-minute runtimes instead of cohering into a rhythm.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
  • Low-income Americans need more help getting enough to eat, but not much of the food retailers that sell groceries could potentially donate is given away.
    — John Lowrey, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • Also similar to Sexton, Chicago has full Bird rights on Simons and seemingly not much interest in bringing him back; that could open sign-and-trade scenarios.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Every time some new labor-saving technology is introduced, there are experts (the ones who know a lot about technology but not much about psychology) who predict that people will use the technology to make life easier.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • There’s not much room left to sign anyone else outright unless Jeff Peterson, the Hornets’ president of basketball operations, intends on doing more wheeling and dealing.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • The 70-year-old Countess of Salisbury was one of the last of the Plantagenets and thus a threat to King Henry VIII, a Tudor, though not much of one given her age.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Although not much else is known about Travis and Taylor's upcoming wedding, sources told Page Six and Rolling Stone that Stevie Nicks, 78, a longtime friend and collaborator of Swift will sing during their nuptials.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026

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