How to Use (all) the more so in a Sentence

(all) the more so

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• This has evolved, of course, all the more so with these friends.
  — Kera Bolonik, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• And they’re expected to grow all the more so in the coming years.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• The corn tea which followed was equally lovely, and made all the more so being served out of bone china cups made with waste bones from the Blue Hill kitchen.
  — Maria Geyman, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
• But the shadows cast here are confoundingly complex, the more so because the hanging objects are not aligned in the same plane.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• All the more so when the extremely limited-edition 2012 Club Coupes were announced.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• His drawing of a reclining nude male is virtuosic in the fineness of its line and the subtlety of shadow and light, and all the more so in it being rendered using chalk, soft and fussy at the best of times.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• The close harmonies in the piece are difficult even for professionals, and all the more so for amateurs whose practice time is limited.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• Searchers say this is unsurprising, since the ivorybill is not only rare but also very shy, all the more so because it was hunted so intensively in the past.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Wellness is a perennially popular pursuit, all the more so when it can be combined with a little bit of travel.
  — Liz Krieger, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
• For an artist with such a horror of the decorative, his classic phase is uncomfortably stylish, and feels all the more so in a museum funded by handbag sales.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• My delivery was terrifying, and all the more so because Black women have the highest rate of maternal deaths in the US—nearly three times as many as white women.
  — Danielle Kwateng, SELF, 13 Sep. 2023
• Still, the sight of a swastika gives me shivers, and all the more so given that, in this age of denial and re-nascent fascism, the symbol has outlived its ironic uses (punk rock, Mel Brooks) and is simply a sign of antisemitism.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• The rarity of his performances here makes Byron’s return especially welcome, all the more so with a band that includes bass great Mark Helias.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• The titular butcher preys largely on women, killing them in increasingly daring and terrifying ways made all the more so because readers are in his evil head for half the novel.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• All the more so because racial preferences are increasingly infecting healthcare and medicine.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• One exhibit case of Armstrong's early equipment gives a sense of how much more complicated photography could be in the film era, the more so before 35-mm cameras became dominant.
  — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
• All the more so given that China’s explanation that this was a merely a weather balloon that took a wrong turn at the Aleutian Islands has imploded under scrutiny and more disclosures.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
• Psychopaths are generally charming and intelligent at first blush, successful psychopaths all the more so.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 25 May 2023
• There is nothing more compelling in a character than confidence and competence, and all the more so when that character comes without magical superpowers.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Despite economic and health incentives to take loneliness seriously, workplace loneliness has been on the rise and all the more so exacerbated by the pandemic.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Although today’s crisis makes the prospect of the two generals stepping aside seemingly unlikely, moving away from military rule is essential, all the more so given the public revulsion at the battling forces in the Sudanese capital.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023
• Hur stuck to his guns but was not particularly convincing, all the more so since his defense was delivered while testifying before a packed congressional hearing that was being broadcast and livestreamed on multiple networks and news sites.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Exposure, in other words, is a currency to rival cash, a levelling device in the brutal lottery of college athletics—all the more so now that a student can profit from his name, image, and likeness without jeopardizing eligibility.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• The complicated dynamics created by intersectionality and real or apparent allyship become increasingly resonant in both time frames — all the more so because of this cast’s ability to suggest nuanced unease, suspicion and second-guessing.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024