Lot is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like deal or pile. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lot in a sentence
Related words
Lot meaning
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
Synonyms of Lot
Using Lot
- The main meaning on this page is: A large quantity or number; a great deal. | A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole. | One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- Useful related words include: deal, pile, peck, muckle.
- In the example corpus, lot often appears in combinations such as: lot of, and lot, lot more.
Context around Lot
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lot
- In this selection, "lot" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, action, imminent, recent, lingered, sizes and better stand out and add context to how "lot" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include lot a lot a lot, scoring a lot of goals, parking lot and whole lot. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lot" sits close to words such as open, got and shares, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lot
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I write a lot—a lot, a lot, a lot. (10 words)
That’s a lot—a lot of wrestlers, a lot of wrestling, and a lot of bouts to keep straight. (20 words)
A lot of people have a lot of explaining and a lot of real accounting to show to the US public. (21 words)
George is someone who really wants to prepare a lot and so three months before the shoot we exchanged huge emails and he wanted to know everything and to prepare in his house, so a lot of questions and a lot of answers. (43 words)
The doctors stressed that there is still a lot of steps left in Hamlin’s recovery, but the ones he has taken already will make a lot of people feel a lot better than they have over the last few days. (41 words)
A lot of the advice that I give nowadays can be translated into other areas of life, so having those tips that are a lot more broad, but a lot of the same things that I talk about. (38 words)
Don’t be like Lot …When it was Time for Decisive Action, Lot lingered…When Heavenly Messengers Were Urging Him to Go, Lot lingered…When Judgment was Imminent, Lot lingered! (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
It took a lot of effort, it took a lot of organizing, a lot of events, a lot of food, a lot of free shirts, and actively engaging, even bringing them to the office now.
I write a lot—a lot, a lot, a lot.
In more recent years, there has been a lot of backlash, a lot of fear, a lot of dystopia, a lot of all of the ways in which tech is threatening us.
That’s a lot—a lot of wrestlers, a lot of wrestling, and a lot of bouts to keep straight.
Don’t be like Lot …When it was Time for Decisive Action, Lot lingered…When Heavenly Messengers Were Urging Him to Go, Lot lingered…When Judgment was Imminent, Lot lingered!
And when we think about the recent lot sizes, it looks like lot -- I think lot 16 was in the 125 to 130 range.
But yeah, I can see that—a lot of use of synthesizers and drum programming and cleaner guitar than I've used on a lot of a lot of my own songs anyway.
He’s a lot more natural, a lot more creative, a lot more God-given with his hands, so I was wrong about that as well.
I just wanted to keep last week really short and sweet, and I felt like I’ve given a lot, I’ve gained a lot, I’ve learned a lot.
It's a lot of money up front, it's a lot of time, it's a lot of medication," she said.
She had to write a lot, and pitch her stories a lot, then write a lot more before the hard work met up with the deep hope.
That's why there's this whole Berlin part, and there's a lot more club fight, there's a lot more Arc de Triomphe, a lot more.
The doctors stressed that there is still a lot of steps left in Hamlin’s recovery, but the ones he has taken already will make a lot of people feel a lot better than they have over the last few days.
We had consumers with a lot of money in their pockets due to stimulus payments, and there were a lot of -- it was a lot of good things happening.
George is someone who really wants to prepare a lot and so three months before the shoot we exchanged huge emails and he wanted to know everything and to prepare in his house, so a lot of questions and a lot of answers.
I would be worried if we’re not scoring a lot of goals, if we’re not creating chances, which is the opposite, I think we’re creating a lot, we’re scoring a lot of goals.
She suffered a lot in her life, so she can relate to a lot of people and a lot of people can relate to her when they suffering and going through things.
We are getting a lot of support from Nigerians, a lot of prayers, a lot of information on things that are happening everywhere.
A lot of people have a lot of explaining and a lot of real accounting to show to the US public.
A lot of the advice that I give nowadays can be translated into other areas of life, so having those tips that are a lot more broad, but a lot of the same things that I talk about.
Phrases with lot
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with lot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lot of 307×
- and lot 40×
- lot more 26×
- have lot 22×
- lot to 15×
- there lot 13×
- lot lot 12×
- are lot 12×
- with lot 11×
- there's lot 10×