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Sentences with less. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use less in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for less.

• Which was the less deplorable? (8)
• Could Evan do less than adore her? (10)
• But she was none the less a Puritan. (9)
• There was less danger than he thought. (8)
• The effect can be no less than hideous! (7)
• But the infant is not the less married. (10)
• Jolly suddenly became less distinguished. (8)
• And I see not the less repose in the prospect! (10)
• Could he do less than this he was about to do? (10)
• Nothing less ideal than this satisfies the reason. (9)
• Even to see Mr. Crawford would be less overpowering. (4)
• In a frame less robust the brain would have given way. (22)
• She was not a woman for trifling, still less for secresy. (10)
• With his assistance she would see that, when less excited. (10)
• I apprehend he will not have less than seven hundred a year. (4)
• Already she had no name; she was less living than a tombstone. (10)
• If he had remembered even less he would have been more at ease. (8)
• None the less was she offended, as a flower by a crisping wind. (8)
• On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal. (4)
• Still more unluckily, that attractive lady was less wise than weak. (1)
• She was guilty only of being less rich than he had supposed her to be. (4)
• What could seem less likely ever more to move, and change again to day? (8)
• The fact is manifest: I feel I have been living more or less uselessly. (10)
• Probably the ancients realized this neither more nor less than we moderns. (8)
• If that is not done, the world is more or less a carnival of counterfeits. (10)
• But the other man, who was younger and less prejudiced, was more responsive. (13)
• The dispute about being commercialized is always a question of more or less. (16)
• The difference is not less marked in newspaper-making than in other pursuits. (16)
• And what inclines one less to bear, she has no fair pretence of family or blood. (4)
• What work now performed by humble men was less monotonous than work on the land? (8)
• In Green Street Winifred stood to receive, just a little less composed than usual. (8)
• Each of its generations occupied nearly twice as long as those of less tenacious men. (8)
• To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself. (4)
• And he seemed to know less and less which was the stronger within him. (8)
• He forgot the lord, and supposed he had found his own likeness, less gifted in speech. (10)
• To Cecilia her brother-in-law always seemed an amiable and more or less pathetic figure. (8)
• If she was not enough for him now, would she not be still less, if his work were cut away? (8)
• Meantime her battle in her own behalf looked less pleasing by the light of new advantages. (10)
• Some one said it was a pity to frighten them, but there would necessarily be more or less noise. (7)
• It was a sad, anxious day; and the morrow, though differing in the sort of evil, did by no means bring less. (4)
• Here he was almost as fine as in his poetry, and only less fine than in his more fortunate essays in fiction. (9)
• Less than twenty-four hours ago, she had turned a deaf ear to his pleading that she should go to him for ever. (8)
• At a late date, strict Discant sometimes alternated with the old Organum, making it much less free in character. (3)
• If one were less greedy or less foolish, some one else would have and would shine at his expense. (9)
• He is well paid and holds his position, whatever it may be, by a less precarious tenure than his American congener. (7)
• His income from the sale of his land had proved less than he anticipated, and he felt the need of a fixed increase. (14)
• He had lost her somehow, either way, he kept saying to himself, as he sat there trying to think calmly, to feel less. (13)
• From her point of view a cipher more or less matters no more than a pea more or less in a bag of peas. (12)
• Her vanishing seemed to say, that less of her belonged to him than the phantom his eyes retained behind them somewhere. (10)
• It was, I think, sensibly less noisy than usual, as if it were all a chamber of death in which the voice must be bated. (14)
• He is very, distinctly fallible, but I think his life is not less instructive because in certain things it seems a failure. (9)
• She knew that Dahlia was unconscious of her imprisonment, and had less compunction in counting the minutes of her absence. (22)
• Dorothy, meanwhile, no less struck by your appearance, gazes on you in great agitation, and drops a few unintelligible hints. (4)
• The work done in hundreds of schools of less reputation is a great factor in spreading musical culture throughout the country. (3)
• He had less assurance than on the afternoon before; the strain of the situation was beginning to tell even on his coarse fibre. (13)
• Looking at shut eyelids when you love the eyes beneath, is more or less a teazing mystery that draws down your mouth to kiss them. (10)
• An impalpable quality, less easily captured than the scent of a flower, the peculiar and most essential attribute of any work of art! (8)
• This was done less for concealment of her shame-stricken features than to avoid sight of the stupefaction imprinted upon Mr. Pericles. (10)
• Seeing Marko too, assured of it by his broken look, the terrible mournfulness less than the horrible irony of the truth gnawed within her. (10)
• The pitch of wooden-shingle roofs should not be less than 8 inches rise per foot for the ordinary weathering shown in the above statements. (17)
• She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. (4)
• The sides of dormers are made less conspicuous by covering them with the same material as used on the roof, but this is not always desirable. (17)
• It gave her the feeling that life and experience were all that mattered, doing and seeing things; it made her own trouble seem smaller; less important. (8)

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Definition of less:

• less, les, adj. (serves as comp. of little_) diminished: smaller. | adv. not so much: in a lower degree. | n. a smaller portion: (_b._) the inferior or younger. (0)

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