LOT in a Sentence

Learn LOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for LOT, such as:
1. We've got a lot of hard work ahead.
2. Actually, it's I that owe you a lot.
3. They freely admit they still have a lot to learn.
4. For a moment, can remember many things, also missed a lot.
5. Her parents are very liberal and allow her a lot of freedom.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LOT
lot
 n.  (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
 n.  an unofficial association of people or groups
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "There was a whole lot of them coasting before the moon set," she said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  His pen paused on the word, which brought home to him the relentless conditions of his lot.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Ashley Wilkes said they had an awful lot of scenery and music.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  "And looks a lot like Betty, too," said Camilla, and then disappeared shrieking amid a welter of skirts and pantalets and bobbing hats, as Betty, who did have a long face, began pinching her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  She knew a lot about horse breeding too, you see, and said I was right.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  In this interval between the morning party and the evening's ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  She was only seventeen now and there was still a lot of dancing left in her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  "Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  And conceal all their feelings and desires and little heartbreaks behind a lot of sweet words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  I understand and it was a brave thing you did last night and it's going to help the hospital a lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With a lot of training, we might be able to lick the team into shape in time for next year's games.
2  Think about the misforture of others that you may be satisfied with your own lot.
3  There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
4  There was a lot of activity in preparation for the Queen's visit.
5  Actually, it's I that owe you a lot.
6  The college loses a lot of money through poor administration.
7  They freely admit they still have a lot to learn.
8  I thought I knew quite a lot about electrical things, but when I was given this old radio to repair, I had to admit that I'd met my match.
9  I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.
10  A lot of services have been cut that particularly affect the old.
11  After the First World War Germany conceded a lot of land to her neighbours.
12  We've got a lot of hard work ahead.
13  Her parents are very liberal and allow her a lot of freedom.
14  I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting nevertheless.
15  For a moment, can remember many things, also missed a lot.