very well

idiom

somewhat old-fashioned

—used to say that one agrees with something

Very well, then. I'll see you tomorrow.

Oh, very well. Do as you please.

: reasonably or properly

I can't very well show up at the wedding uninvited.

Examples of very well in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Even sports-adjacent live programming, like Netflix’s Tom Brady roast, can seemingly do very well. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024 That could very well mean offloading the winery, much to Carolyn’s chagrin. —

Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 May 2024 In fact, your teen or child might very well agree with you and welcome help putting down their phone. —

Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024 This matched very well with Ishibashi’s music, where there’s very few senses of life within the landscape except for a bit of falling snow or a little flash of movement from the wind or an animal. —

Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2024 Make no mistake, what happened to Humphry could very well happen to Biden. —

Douglas Schoen, Orange County Register, 3 May 2024 Like with Humane, Rabbit is making a bet on AI systems all the way down, and until all those systems get better, none of them will work very well. —

David Pierce, The Verge, 2 May 2024 But if history had unfolded differently, the two might very well be swapped. —

Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024 That very well may prove to be the case, but Koetter cautioned people not to forget about Tiller, a former three-star recruit from Rancho Cucamonga High in California. —

Ron Counts, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2024

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