so much as

1. see as much as, def. 3.

Example Sentences

The director’s move to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago did not sting nearly so much as the news that the curator was going to the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A..

From Los Angeles Times

His colleagues are murdered and even kidnapping Faye Dunaway doesn’t quite result in sparks so much as an absorbing movie-long seethe.

From Los Angeles Times

Five years later, free of chronic pain, I ride bikes and run endurance races, activities that I could not have imagined doing back when I was laid up in bed with neck spasms, or having trouble so much as typing on a computer.

From Slate

Once the press gets wind that Mary’s marriage has ended, the gossip is relentless, and the one-time belle of the ball can’t rustle up so much as a small tea party.

From Salon

Scotland have not been able to lay so much as a glove on England since however.

From BBC

Related Words

• indeed 
• much