How to Use more or less in a Sentence

more or less

adverb

• Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Indy 500, run on the same day and more or less at the same time, was.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
• At the time, the city felt quiet, remote, and more or less off the map in the eyes of the rest of the globe.
  — Ian Volner, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• The new ship is more or less a dupe of the Seabourn Venture, which launched in 2022.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• The plan for the third voyage was more or less the inverse of the second’s.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The sports-movie genre has more or less primed us for one thing: winning.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
• Of those six, two fall in love with Jackie more or less on sight.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Their stock prices had more or less flatlined for at least a decade.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• Ideally, the end of your sleeve and the bottom of the jacket should more or less line up.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
• Or maybe the laptop with a little more or less hard drive space is in stock.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• With this strategy, over time, the highs and lows more or less even out.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 July 2024
• The exception is the free throw, stuck more or less where it’s always been.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• Each dimmable light strip stretches 5 feet and can be set to a timer to give them more or less time to move around the room.
  — Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• The contents of the suitcase, more or less, told Emil Hess’s life story.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• Lips can become chapped too for more or less the same reasons.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 July 2024
• All of this, more or less, belonged to Limonov’s universe.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 May 2024
• And then the winter rains gave way to spring rains, and summer showed up, more or less – at least the rain was warmer.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022
• The fish cannot scream; the abuse is more or less happening below the surface, out of sight.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• Too soon to say which days could see more or less storms, or what time of day storms are most likely.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• This, more or less, brings us up to date with the post-credits sequence of the Ms. Marvel Disney+ series.
  — Christian Holub and Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Its brain was about the size of a walnut, which is more or less average for sauropods, Sereno says.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• Both bitcoin and ethereum function more or less this way.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• The characters and actors should be more or less set for the next season.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
• This time, the whole thing is set on a Greek island, and thankfully the film more or less avoids the sophomore slump.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Dec. 2022
• At one point, a Newsweek journalist more or less just looked in the phone book for Nakamotos.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
• That’s it, more or less; the writing isn’t great, but far from terrible.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Will there be more or less Black storytelling in the future?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Each of Swift’s records has a distinct visual component—this is more or less the premise of the Eras Tour.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
• The problem of course is that inflation is, more or less, already defeated and the economy is on fire.
  — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• The size and design of the drink mouth can allow more or less heat to escape and affect the overall insulation performance.
  — Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024