LESS in a Sentence
Learn LESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
399 example sentences for LESS, such as:
1. Fish oils are less saturated than animal fats.
2. Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
3. The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
4. The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
5. American children did less well in math than their peers in Japan.
2. Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
3. The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
4. The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
5. American children did less well in math than their peers in Japan.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LESS
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less
a. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer
ad. comparative of little
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
2 Alas, in less than an hour there was a ring at the bell, and I learned that Mr. Drebber had returned.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3 The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4 It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5 The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
6 In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men.
7 If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
8 The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
9 All the same, there were days when they felt that they would sooner have had less figures and more food.
10 Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard.
11 It was only his appearance that was a little altered; his hide was less shiny than it had used to be, and his great haunches seemed to have shrunken.
12 He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county.
13 And she was a thorough good sort, making him feel less of an audience, more of an actor, going round the Barn in her wake.
14 The good clergyman, I say, does more work for less pay than all the lot.
15 The tune said, more or less, how Eve, gathering her robes about her, stands reluctant still to let her dewy mantle fall.
Example Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
1 I found it immensely rewarding working with the less able children.
2 Nurses refused to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation.
3 Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
4 Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
5 She still has the energy and sex appeal of a woman less than half her age.
6 American children did less well in math than their peers in Japan.
7 The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
8 Fish oils are less saturated than animal fats.
9 His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
10 It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
11 Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.
12 A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.
13 They assume they have a more or less equal relationship with the author.
14 The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
15 If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.