How to Use very in a Sentence

very

1 of 2 adverb
  • The stakes are very, very high.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • Be very, very clear about this.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That has been a very long time.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The roots just aren’t very deep.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of fun, very comedic movie.
    — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • So that was very fun for me as well.
    — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • At this point, there are very few bright spots.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Lumpy skin, very thin arms and fever can be signs too.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 13 June 2026
  • Our neighbor is a very nice man.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For a very brief while, the Tua era was fun.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Dahlonega is a very small town.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Asking for more feels very risky.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • My teammates around me are very proud too.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2026
  • Put a couple ‘very’s in front of it.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This is an action show, very fast paced.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • And pays very, very well indeed.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Well, this all seems very legit.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Well, this all seems very legit.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The bathroom is very day-spa in grayscale.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Be very careful with this heavy, wet snow.
    — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • These pair very well with strong black coffee.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The seniors were a very tight-knight group.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • Last year’s squad set a very high standard.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Sun and areas of high clouds and very warm.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This show is very long and there’s no pizza.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • It's been a long road, a very long journey.
    — Da Lin, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • That’s made my very long morning very good.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The water was very dark blue and very, very cold.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2026
  • Or, at the very least, something like it.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That's very special about them.
    — Jon Youshaei, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026

very

2 of 2 adjective
  • At the very end, two things strike him.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And a few great ones at the very top.
    — Sergei Poljak, Outside, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Here, what’s at stake is one’s very soul.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Yet the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Those very names now stand across from Lee.
    — Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The song came at the very end of Noah's set.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The trash was picked up that very morning.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • That may be the very issue at play, though.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This was the very start of 1990.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This is the very process that makes learning stick.
    — Saharnaz Babaei-Balderlou, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Small huts in the distance, on the very edge of things.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Some of the very people who didn't vote with us last time.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Three lived on my very block; three others on the next block over.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But Pawol was the first to reach the very top.
    — Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
  • This plan hasn’t been thought through by the very leaders who passed it.
    — Julie Darling, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Some didn’t get it; but those who did embraced it from the very start.
    — Pablo Monroy, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Viewers were kept in the dark until the very end.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Japan is caught in the very center of this limbo.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The final post-credits bit is at the very end.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • There was no fireball this time until the very end.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Dunk finds himself at the very bottom of this.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 19 Jan. 2026
  • There is no visual scene at the very end of the credits.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Much of that growth has been concreted at the very top.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the lie of race from the very beginning.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • God brought us together for this very time.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The very pace of their advancement may pose a threat.
    — Ahmed Hamza, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
  • Michaela’s mother and the very source of her spirit.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The very nature of life is fleeting.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • From the very start, the audience knows who did what.
    — Amy Reyes may 14, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • Shawn has since killed a handful of bulls out of that very meadow.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025

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