Sentence examples for less from high-quality English sources.

• Less sirens.

• The less air they take in, the less water vapour they let out.

• For less bad things to happen, less bad people need to be involved.

• "I reckon I've done my bit so I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

• Living well on less now could mean that you have less debt going into retirement.

• They were also viewed as less reliable, less committed, and less deserving of a job.

• Respondents also said they aspired to drink less alcohol, produce less household rubbish and recycle more.

• Although his new power makes change possible, it could also make it seem less necessary or less desirable.

Use less in a sentence.

• Bug farming takes up less land, requires less food and does less damage to the environment than meat or fish farming.

• "The industry and experts agree that banning Huawei equipment would leave Britain less secure, less productive and less innovative."

• A third less firewood, a third less time collecting firewood, more than a third less smoke and a third less climate damage.

• Assuming that people in 1950 felt the same way about particular jobs as people do now, workers today are less sad, less tired and in less pain.

• Beyond 95, though, the practical point of extending the table became less and less obvious as elements became less and less stable.

• It's a common idea: That the best way to fight climate change is by making changes in your own life — using less energy, eating less meat, driving less, flying less.

• “You produced less electricity, less steel, less toilet paper — less of everything that was included in the system,” said Stig Schjolset, chief carbon markets analyst with Thomson Reuters Point Carbon in Oslo.

• According to the Sleep Council, a bed with the correct support, comfort and space will ensure you wake less, move around less, are less disturbed by your partner and are less likely to wake up feeling tired or aching.

less sentence examples

• Less well-educated men also spend less time searching for work, doing odd jobs for money and getting extra training than unemployed educated men, and they do less work around the house and spend less time with their children.

• The processing of any stimulus takes the form of extracting more and more remote consequences from the conjunction of it with less and less antecedently salient, less and less antecedently taken-for-granted, auxiliary assumptions.

• "We can eat less animal protein, eat better quality food that contains less fat, less salt, and less sugar — and do so in smaller quantities — and we can take care to eat seasonally, to bear in mind certain fishing and fish-breeding periods, etcetera."

• In the cables, the British ambassador says that British analysts do not believe that the Trump administration “is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction rived; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”