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"More" in a Sentence (41 examples)
I always liked mysterious characters more.
For some reason I feel more alive at night.
I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves explicitly.
It's useless to keep on thinking any more.
I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.
Speak more slowly, please!
I have so much work that I will stay for one more hour.
People in the world are always advocating for more freedom and equality.
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There are more ways to do this than I can count.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
More people are arriving.
I want more soup.
I need more time.
He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.
I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
I could no more climb that than fly!
More advanced students.
I have more than carried out my obligation.
I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
I am much more eager to help than you.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.
I was more better at English than you.
We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
There isn’t enough salt in this. You need to add more.
I'd love to see more of Bob and Linda.
There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.
Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.
Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.
A value is a social more or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.
Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a social more or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.
In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.
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