LOT in a Sentence

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For LOT, below is one of 420 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lot
 ad.  a great deal; much
 n.  very much
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoted to manager after a year.
17  We women have a lot of good business skills, although we tend to underrate ourselves.
18  The book caused a lot of bad feeling, not least among the students.
19  He gave me a lot of flannel but I still don't know the answer to my question.
20  A lot of young people apply for jobs on spec.
21  A lot of houses in the area are being bought by non-residents.
22  A lot of the training is orientated around communications skills.
23  I was born in Fort Worth but we moved around a lot and I was reared in east Texas.
24  There's been a lot of hype around/surrounding his latest film.
25  A lot of art students live in this dorm.
26  The editor said a lot of readers would be incensed by my article on abortion.
27  He is used to a lot of attention from his wife, which will inevitably lessen when the baby is born.
28  The company's donation was surely motivated by self-interest, as it attracted a lot of media attention.
29  These pets require a lot of care and attention.
30  I'd been away for a few days so I had a lot of post waiting for me.