Below you will find example sentences with "becomes less". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Becomes Less in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: becomes
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.6 words

Words in this phrase

becomes less

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • becomes can mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of become Frequent word
  • less can mean: comparative degree of little Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and again becomes less as the 1× and therefore becomes less prone to 1× atmosphere it becomes less concentrated and 1× away it becomes less effective 1× chain model becomes less dependable 1× christian it becomes less jewish as 1× everything becomes less green due 1× fear response becomes less and less 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a device with 1× as progressive distillations 1× as the romance 1× as traditional job 1× as travel distance 1× but as radioactive 1×

Common sentence endings:

a specific stimulus 1× and less harmful 1× attractive to advertisers 1× becomes less dependable 1× becomes less effective 1× doesn t it 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

away 2× powerful 2× higher 2× atomic 2× electrons 2× energy 2× water 2× further 2× effective 2× travel 2× cost 2× unit 2×

Related phrases

less attractive less expensive less frequent less money less likely slightly less spend less becomes increasingly less stable less successful

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around becomes:

becomes part 6×

Just before it in the phrase index:

becomes increasingly becomes apparent become infected become increasingly become easier become citizen

Just after it in the phrase index:

becomes part becoming increasingly bed bugs beef cattle beer company beer festival

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

becomes increasingly becomes apparent becomes part

Same ending:

slightly less spend less significantly less earning less producing less

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "becomes less" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and again becomes less as the, and therefore becomes less prone to, away, powerful and higher stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with less attractive, less expensive, less frequent and becomes part, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with becomes less

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Everything becomes less green due to the heat doesn't it? (11 words)

Once the light gets more than a few feet away, it becomes less effective. (14 words)

But as radioactive material spreads through the atmosphere, it becomes less concentrated and less harmful. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

The strength at maximum load is not so great with the most rapid-growing wood; it is maximum with from 14 to 20 rings per inch (rings 1.3–1.8 mm thick), and again becomes less as the wood becomes more closely ringed. (44 words)

There is virtually no limit for the length of words, but when too many suffixes are added, the meaning of the word becomes less clear, and the word becomes hard to understand, and will work like a riddle even for native speakers. (42 words)

Limitations seeAlso As the crystal's repeating unit, its unit cell, becomes larger and more complex, the atomic-level picture provided by X-ray crystallography becomes less well-resolved (more "fuzzy") for a given number of observed reflections. (38 words)

Question examples

Everything becomes less green due to the heat doesn't it? (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

When that policy becomes more Christian, it becomes less Jewish; as ‘pro-Israel’ becomes synonymous with conservative Republicans, American Jews — still largely identified with the Democratic party — will move away.

Over time, the fear response becomes less and less powerful as a person becomes acclimatized to a specific stimulus.

Thus, in atoms of higher atomic number, the of electrons becomes more and more of a determining factor in their energy, and the principal quantum numbers of electrons becomes less and less important in their energy placement.

As progressive distillations produce solutions with less and less water, each further distillation becomes less effective at removing the remaining water.

As travel distance increases, the latter consideration becomes less of the total cost of operating an airliner and air travel becomes more cost-competitive.

Limitations seeAlso As the crystal's repeating unit, its unit cell, becomes larger and more complex, the atomic-level picture provided by X-ray crystallography becomes less well-resolved (more "fuzzy") for a given number of observed reflections.

The oldies and classic rock formats have a strong niche market, but as the audience becomes older the station becomes less attractive to advertisers.

There is virtually no limit for the length of words, but when too many suffixes are added, the meaning of the word becomes less clear, and the word becomes hard to understand, and will work like a riddle even for native speakers.

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The strength at maximum load is not so great with the most rapid-growing wood; it is maximum with from 14 to 20 rings per inch (rings 1.3–1.8 mm thick), and again becomes less as the wood becomes more closely ringed.

But as radioactive material spreads through the atmosphere, it becomes less concentrated and less harmful.

A device with such simple functionality has less demand for complex hardware or silicon, and therefore becomes less prone to obsolescence.

If we rephrase sexual transgression in school and work as a civil-rights and civil-society issue, everything becomes less emotional, less personal.

Everything becomes less green due to the heat doesn't it?

Once the light gets more than a few feet away, it becomes less effective.

This unpredictability forces shippers to adapt by either ordering goods further in advance or maintaining higher inventory levels, as the just-in-time supply chain model becomes less dependable.

With the context missing, this well-intentioned, lest-we-forget film becomes less than its powerful moving parts.

As the romance becomes less cliché and, thanks to the sci-fi premise, goes in wild directions.

As traditional job security becomes less reliable, more Canadians are seeking flexibility and autonomy in their careers.

But turn around and the picture becomes less like an iconic postcard and more like a festering eyesore polluting the foreshore with graffiti, broken windows, putrid smelling rubbish and squatters.

Until the name becomes less stupid, so you may have to put up with it for a while.

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