He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The Major did not marry her in the spring, or any other time.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Stretcher bearers would be along any time now.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Who the hell is going to make any trouble?
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In 1919 he was travelling on the railroads in Italy carrying a square of oilcloth from the headquarters of the party written in indelible pencil and saying here was a comrade who had suffered very much under the whites in Budapest and requesting comrades to aid him in any way.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— one or some indiscriminately of whatever kind
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Macmillan
— used instead of ‘some’ for saying or asking whether there is a small amount of something or a small number of people or things
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Usage
68 uses of ‘any’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald