to an unspecified but limited degree, amount, etc. [paid so much per day]
often used as an intensifier [so much the worse for us!]
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Examples of 'so much' in a sentence
so much
So much good work took six minutes for the winger to undo.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me pick up handwriting speed.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
You reach a point when there is just so much to be grumpy about.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There is so much money coming into the game.
The Sun (2015)
You want so much to do well because they want you to do well.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So much good is done within these walls.
The Sun (2010)
He studied the game a lot and knew so much about it.
Leo McKinstry Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest FootballManager (2006)
There is just so much rubbish about.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
How come there is so much money in sport?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Football wastes so much time and money changing management.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And it will all be just so much hot air.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But the organisations which have done so much good are still employed looking for stuff to shout about.
The Sun (2012)
How can this be acceptable and why is so much money spent when all other services are being cut back?
The Sun (2015)
So much for being a planner.
Christianity Today (2000)
So much for the good news.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
American universities just offer so much.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
One of the problems that we have in the region is not so much a lack of skills but a lack of people.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If anything, we may be a bit overweight because they were feeding us so much.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The fly half extended that lead and it was a shame that a match of so much flair and ambition was being decided by penalties.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Making it to a 52nd victory was going to be the toughest of the lot and so much depended on how he would resume.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A poppy doesn't cost a lot and means so much to so many people.
The Sun (2008)
We will miss you so much, lots of love '.
The Sun (2010)
I bring them out when I want a table that looks not so much chic as pretty and inviting.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All related terms of 'so much'
so much so
You use so much so to indicate that your previous statement is true to a very great extent , and therefore it has the result mentioned .
so much as
If you say that someone did not do so much as perform a particular action, you are emphasizing that they did not even do that, when you were expecting them to do more.
not so much
If you say that something is not so much one thing as another, you mean that it is more like the second thing than the first.
so much for
So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
very much so
The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct .
so much/so many
You use so much and so many when you are saying that there is a definite limit to something but you are not saying what this limit is.
all the better so much the better
You can say ' so much the better ' or ' all the better ' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available .
so much the better all much the better
You can say ' so much the better ' or ' all the better ' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available .