How to Use very well in a Sentence

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  • The project could have worked very well if the country wasn’t Brazil.
    — Ricardo Fort, Sportico.com, 24 June 2024
  • And in the last few years, sellers have done very well.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • Keep in Mind The storage hook didn’t secure the brush very well.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2023
  • SpaceX launched what could very well be the first private landing on the Moon.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Both laws are before the Supreme Court, which very well may strike them down.
    — David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And with two days left in the auction, that number could very well climb.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Well, now that the Roborock Q5 is on sale at Woot, that may very well happen even for you.
    — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Cons The lid doesn’t fit very well so by the end of use, steam and bubbles were leaking out.
    — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Colorado just left for the Big 12, and Arizona could very well be next.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The other thing Dreame does very well is clean baseboards and edges.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 17 July 2024
  • But, the freeze date could very well keep getting later.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But, the freeze date could very well keep getting later.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Epic Pinball and Wolfenstein 3D also work very well and are a lot of fun to play.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
  • Or try them both; the pistachio is a nut worth getting to know very well.
    — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This guy, who has the cutest ears, is a total sweetheart and does very well in his kennel.
    — Teryn Jones, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are sleeping very well at night.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This could very well become part of your airport wardrobe.
    — Amber Love Bond, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In its infancy there were few things that worked very well and none of those felt genuine to me.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This system works very well for acute pain but can go haywire.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet may very well be the friendliest exes ever.
    — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Two bad picks and two awful overthrows to wide open Keenan Allen which very well may have won this game.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Now, your father has aged very well, but Lee Shaw has aged even better as of the 2015 timeline.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There figures to be few easy yards for either team in the trenches, so the game could very well break on who breaks a big one.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Okay, well, anyway, for the most part, Johnson’s work was very well received.
    — The Lost Women Of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Angels may very well already be out of the race, but remember what Ohtani did the last time the Angels came to Texas?
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The natural cleaner works very well on most wood, but can leave some streaks on glass.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And those solutions may very well come from a place that few would expect.
    — Paige Vega, Vox, 3 July 2024
  • My long-ago ancestors may very well have enjoyed the fruit.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Apple and Cook may very well have to resort to the same playbook should Trump take office again.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 July 2024
  • My summer color is doing very well in spite of neglect.
    — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 22 July 2024

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