Simpler

//ˈsɪm.pəl.ə//

"Simpler" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Will you please put that in simpler words?

These creatures evolved from simpler organisms like jellyfish.

Such manuals should be written in simpler language.

First we have International English, which will probably become simpler than "standard."

I find your argument too convoluted. Couldn't you try to make it simpler and more concise?

Their siheyuans were far smaller in scale and simpler in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.

Although studying Chinese seems difficult, it's simpler than you think.

With the creation of a city area that's more like a town, with plenty of greenery and community buildings, living in the city will soon mean simpler, stress-free lifestyles for the 20,000 that are expected to live, work and play in Edinburgh's Waterfront.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the creation of the planets, I would have suggested a simpler system.

When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.

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During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.

One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.

… may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to.

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