MANY in a Sentence

Learn MANY 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.

405 example sentences for MANY, such as:

1. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
2. The library has many art treasures.
3. I've taken on too many commitments.
4. He arranged many traditional folk songs.
5. The article makes too many false presumptions.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
many
 a.  being one of a large but indefinite number
 pron.  a large number of persons or things
 n.  a large but indefinite number
Classic Sentence: (203 in 14 pages)
1  'I am about to undertake that task; and it is on that account that I feel so many overwhelming terrors.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  During this voyage we passed many willowy islands and saw several beautiful towns.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England and among the deserts of Scotland.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
7  I pursued him, and for many months this has been my task.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  In the meantime he told me that my friend had certainly not many hours to live.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  During her illness many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  "We haven't met for many years," said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
16  The library has many art treasures.
17  The article makes too many false presumptions.
18  The article was rather stodgy-too many facts.
19  He called attention to the fact that many files were missing.
20  The author illuminates the subject with many examples.
21  The author delineated many characters in his story.
22  There are many who will work hard to achieve these goals.
23  There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.
24  One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
25  Too many cooks spoil the broth.
26  Don't eat too many nuts-you'll spoil your appetite.
27  I've taken on too many commitments.
28  He arranged many traditional folk songs.
29  A good training course will pre-empt many problems.
30  He had had a varied training and held many offices.