How to use very in a sentence (used to add emphasis to an adjective or adverb) to a great degree or extremely Attended the very same schools The very reverend jane smith. You use very to give emphasis to a superlative adjective or adverb For example, if you say that something is the very best, you are emphasizing that it is the best.
See examples of very used in a sentence. Some common synonyms of very are equal, equivalent, identical, same, and selfsame While all these words mean not different or not differing from one another, very, like selfsame, may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. This is the very house where we stayed (definition of very from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press) (definition of very from the cambridge essential dictionary © cambridge university press)
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