How to Use have/share more/less in common with in a Sentence

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• Bruce wrote to a British girl, who decided to trade letters with a friend so each would have more in common with her match.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• Thuan, 45, and Angela, 35, have more in common with the elders of the Lai family than a desire to erect a Vietnamese deli.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• However, the lake cases appear to have more in common with more recent crimes.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
• These Americans seemed to me to have more in common with our founders than all the political loudmouths who have lost any sense of the common good.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Sharks have more in common with human reproduction than that of bony fish, such as goldfish.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 9 July 2021
• All the colors of the year that forecasters picked for 2023 are in fact warm hues that have more in common with beige than with cool grays, which typically have blue as a base color.
  — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
• Kaci Walfall's Naomi might have more in common with her idol Superman than just being an alien.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• Woolf’s point in making these two comparisons seems to be that the present cancellations of Russian artists have more in common with the treatment of Furtwängler than Muck.
  — David Thomas, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
• In many ways, the cryptocurrency markets have more in common with electronic sports than e-finance.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• But the lines have blurred, and a quick look at demographics (and election results) will tell you Chicago and Atlanta have more in common with each other than the rural parts of their respective states.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• An exception is when a state tax law is determined to have more in common with punishment than revenue collection.
  — Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2022
• Other speakers said the city is drawing high numbers of new immigrants and refugees, who have more in common with neighborhoods in District 4 than with East County communities.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
• These handhelds have more in common with the console market, where an upgrade in hardware power requires investing in an entirely new machine.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• The statue was envisioned as a source of pride for Youngstown, generalized for years through the lens of visitors as a hardscrabble, rust-belt city that might have more in common with Pennsylvania’s coal-mining roots than maybe other parts of Ohio.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 July 2021
• As a result, cruise missiles have more in common with jet planes or drones than the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2021
• Bregman admiringly profiles two cushy prisons in Norway that have more in common with Club Med than with any American penitentiary.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2020
• Supporters say the goal is giving the city’s Blacks and Latinos more concentrated political power, while uniting communities that have more in common with each other.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
• The last several decades of climate talks have shown that U.S. Congresses and administrations controlled by different parties have more in common with one another on global climate policy than Americans would like to think.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• In contrast, the black community, and historically black churches, have more in common with white evangelicals in matters of theology and social politics.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
• The forces, which do not currently operate outside China, have more in common with America’s National Guard than its militia movement, which refers to private paramilitary organizations that usually have a right-wing political focus.
  — Laura He, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024