How to Use more or less in a Sentence

more or less

adverb
  • 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
  • This spring 2023 season, the story is more or less the same.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 13 July 2022
  • For the last two years, Giveon has been billed as, more or less, a ballad guy.
    Brenton Blanchet, SPIN, 24 June 2022
  • The sports-movie genre has more or less primed us for one thing: winning.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Of those six, two fall in love with Jackie more or less on sight.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • This is just what has — more or less, but not always! — worked for me.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • With all of that said, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is more or less right in the middle of the timeline.
    Cade Onder, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The two later broke up, which is still more or less normal.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And then the winter rains gave way to spring rains, and summer showed up, more or less – at least the rain was warmer.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The fish cannot scream; the abuse is more or less happening below the surface, out of sight.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But there are thousands and thousands of open source projects, and many of them are more or less derelict.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • 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
  • This, more or less, brings us up to date with the post-credits sequence of the Ms. Marvel Disney+ series.
    Christian Holub and Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Its brain was about the size of a walnut, which is more or less average for sauropods, Sereno says.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Both bitcoin and ethereum function more or less this way.
    Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The characters and actors should be more or less set for the next season.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The hot Gulf waters were more or less a massive fuel tank for Hurricane Milton.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024

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