How to Use more or less in a Sentence

more or less

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• The sports-movie genre has more or less primed us for one thing: winning.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
• The characters and actors should be more or less set for the next season.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
• Genevieve giggles over the uncertainty, but says that if things don’t go her way tonight, things are more or less over for her.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
• At one point, a Newsweek journalist more or less just looked in the phone book for Nakamotos.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
• Organisms, including human beings, are no more or less than the sum of those parts.
  — Siri Hustvedt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• While the number of in-person early voters has jumped, requests for mail-in ballots are more or less flat.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
• Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
• That thicket of trees on the other site is more or less what this site used to look like — that, plus the contamination.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• All these deals have been more or less waved through by the Federal Trade Commission.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• There was this unspoken assumption that whoever was doing it had more or less her best interest in mind or at least didn’t have any malicious intent.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
• The foremost symbol of the sixties, the High Priest of Protest, more or less sat out the rest of the decade, making very few public appearances.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• Pure trial and error across millions, even billions of virtual games, starting out more or less randomly pulling whatever levers were available, and attempting to learn from the results.
  — New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2024
• The same goes for flu vaccines, which are also retooled each year: When measured across the population, the frequency and intensity of side effects remain more or less the same.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Indy 500, run on the same day and more or less at the same time, was.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
• At the time, the city felt quiet, remote, and more or less off the map in the eyes of the rest of the globe.
  — Ian Volner, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• The new ship is more or less a dupe of the Seabourn Venture, which launched in 2022.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• The plan for the third voyage was more or less the inverse of the second’s.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Of those six, two fall in love with Jackie more or less on sight.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Their stock prices had more or less flatlined for at least a decade.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• Ideally, the end of your sleeve and the bottom of the jacket should more or less line up.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
• Or maybe the laptop with a little more or less hard drive space is in stock.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• With this strategy, over time, the highs and lows more or less even out.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 July 2024
• The exception is the free throw, stuck more or less where it’s always been.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• Each dimmable light strip stretches 5 feet and can be set to a timer to give them more or less time to move around the room.
  — Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• The contents of the suitcase, more or less, told Emil Hess’s life story.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• Lips can become chapped too for more or less the same reasons.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 July 2024
• All of this, more or less, belonged to Limonov’s universe.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 May 2024
• The fish cannot scream; the abuse is more or less happening below the surface, out of sight.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• Too soon to say which days could see more or less storms, or what time of day storms are most likely.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024