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"Lessen" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Even your faults do not lessen my respect for you, and in friendship this is what counts.
She tried to lessen her expenses.
We had to lessen the impact of the erratic supplies.
When you are cheerful, books can increase your happiness; when you are sad, books can lessen your sorrow.
I need medicine to lessen the pain.
Sami agreed to testify against Layla in order to lessen his sentence.
No words can lessen your deep sadness.
The 1987 international Montreal Protocol banned many of the chlorine compounds used in refrigerants and aerosols, like hairspray, to lessen the damage. Since then, the size of the ozone hole has slowly declined but remains large enough to produce significant ozone loss.
Chuck Lampe, 44, an independent publisher in Florida, has been taking shots of Botox deep into the muscles of his legs for 10 years to lessen the discomfort of a genetic disorder called torsion dystonia, an extreme and long-lasting version of the condition commonly called “writer’s cramp.”
Scientists are helping to combat the world hunger crisis by breeding nutrient-packed crops that will fill stomachs and lessen the effects of malnutrition.
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a. 1686, Benjamin Calamy, a sermon Charity […] shall lessen his punishment.
December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
The thin glass that makes mirror tiles light in weight also tends to lessen their reflective quality.
Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.
Ober closed his encomium with the serious statement that “Lessen he could marry Miss Jennie he would be a bachelor the balance of his life," to which the drayman replied that " If Oi were Miss Janie Oi'd black yer oi the minute ye thought of such a thing. The oidee."
She was fine-looking; he couldn't find a fault with her 'lessen he made it up.
No more work outta them lessen they paid now.
That usually all they need fuh go that straight and narrow path, lessen they got that real badness or foolishness in them.
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