Want to use Less correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like little or inferior.
Less in a sentence
Related words
Less meaning
- comparative degree of little
- Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.
- To a smaller extent or degree.
Example sentences (20)
All of the potential changes start with safety, less pollution, less noise, and managed growth of passenger traffic.
Children have less asthma and depression and fewer suicidal thoughts; they also spend less time in the hospital.
Minimally invasive procedures, as opposed to traditional surgeries, are less painful due to less bleeding and fewer cuts.
And others of them have less sophisticated vision technology and less capable products from other companies.
April 2022 - present: Less than or equal to five teachers, less than or equal to five teaching assistants.
But as radioactive material spreads through the atmosphere, it becomes less concentrated and less harmful.
Because the shortage is also generating the fact that there’s less and less experience within the labor.
According to the report, 54 percent of users trust AI content “less” or “much less” than human content.
Anyone earning less than £27,800 in currently pays a few pounds less in income tax than their counterparts south of the border.
Much like the Case IH Steiger Quadtrac, the rubber track reduces soil pressure, which leads to less damage and less compaction.
I will be happy for our IGR to go down, not because we do less work but because people violate less.
Americans spend less time and less money on basic sustenance than any human beings in history.
Hiring top data center talent can be hard, not least because data center jobs tend to pay less and be less flexible than other IT roles.
It was yet another setback to a sequel that was looking less and less likely to ever get made.
Long coveted by job centres and PowerPoint presenters, the old image of moving up the career ladder makes less and less sense by the day.
Gelato uses more sugar, incorporates less air, and typically has less fats and other solids.
As we all know, OTM options have a lower delta, which means that they "protect" principal less and less as stocks drop before option expiry.
An added bonus of being so over-exposed is that you become less mysterious and therefore less interesting to people, including the paparazzi.
A forestry student, he worries about the future: "As summers get hotter and it rains less and less, fires move closer to communities and cities.
According to an he issued in May, isolation doesn’t only feel bad; it also makes us sicker, less safe and less able to deal with our own problems.
Phrases with less
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with less
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and less 73×
- less than 54×
- less and 38×
- are less 20×
- is less 15×
- be less 13×
- with less 12×
- or less 12×
- less money 11×
- in less 11×
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