VERY in a Sentence

Learn VERY 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.

404 example sentences for VERY, such as:

1. He's always very punctual.
2. The rooms are all very square.
3. My journey was very melancholy.
4. To deceive oneself is very easy.
5. He is very reticent about his past.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of VERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
very
 ad.  to a great degree or extremely
 a.  exact or particular
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  "Looks very good," he remarked vaguely.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  This professor was very unlike his colleague.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  It was all very careless and confused.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  Edward is very amiable, and I love him tenderly.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
6  She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  He is very far from being independent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  Men are very safe with us, let them be ever so rich.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  His setting off in such a hurry seems very like it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
10  Marianne looked very grave and said nothing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
11  She was very earnest to see the corpse.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  My journey was very melancholy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  Her sufferings have been very severe.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
14  I understand she is a woman of very good fortune.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
15  A very little trouble on your side secures him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
16  I went to a very traditional school.
17  They treat their children very badly.
18  The hands of a clock turn very slowly.
19  It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
20  He that is full of himself is very empty.
21  To deceive oneself is very easy.
22  I've never been very good at arithmetic.
23  She's very conventional in her views.
24  She comes from a very artistic family.
25  They've got a very blinkered view of life.
26  His plots are always very ingenious.
27  She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
28  He is very reticent about his past.
29  The rooms are all very square.
30  He's always very punctual.