Read full poem →Only don't tell Mr. Claude, what I will tell you as a secret,
That I should like very well to show him myself I forget it.
Dictionary Entry
Used to weaken the effect of certain modal verbs.
In a Sentence
“I can't very well talk to you and concentrate on sanding this at the same time.”
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Poetry examples for “very well”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →E. Kno. You speak very well, coz.
Read full poem →year 1686. I cannot learn what is become of the play with his Grace's
alterations, but am very well informed it was since the Revolution in the
bauds of Mr. Nevil Payne, who was imprisoned at Edinburgh in the year
Read full poem →Yet near where many others sing,
I have the very well-head found
Whence gushes the Pierian Spring.’
Read full poem →Inexpressible itchings to be photographed with Lord Rothermere playing
with Lord Rothermere billiards very well by moonlight with Lord
Rothermere.
Read full poem →bring on your fireworks, which are a mixed
splender of piston and of pistil; very well
provided an instant may be fixed
Read full poem →up with the pickle: for my part I purchase my spirits vivente corpore, in
which case I find they keep very well.”
Read full poem →"Where did they come from, Jack?" "Don't ask it,
And you'll be told no lies." "Very well:
Then I can't buy." "I don't want to sell.
Read full poem →No, you will not forget such eyes, I think, --
And you say nothing of them. Very well.
I wonder if all history's worth a wink,
Read full poem →were by a well-known author, I should at once ascribe them to King James
I., who might very well have written these and the lines called
_Prosperity_ above. It is somewhat of a coincidence that the very MS. here