How to Use more in a Sentence

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1 of 3 adjective

• Can you say that one more time?
• The series will have five more episodes.
• The new engine has even more power.
• He had done more harm than he had intended.
• I felt more pain after the procedure, not less.
• I offered him some more coffee.
• One more thing and then I'm leaving.
• You like more sugar in your tea than I do.
• The company hired a few more employees.
• There’s news of a fair amount of change at CNN in this memo, and no doubt more in the coming months.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
• So those kinds of elements are gonna be more in the Daniel shows.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 14 Aug. 2023
• Below, more on what it’s been like for Fishel to meet her old world again.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 12 May 2023
• The Rangers, the best team in the American League West, added two more runs in the sixth and seventh innings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Fans would return to see the show again and again, some doing so 15 times or more.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Aside from the sparkle—there are 70 more diamonds set on the bezel, lugs, and crown—what makes the watch striking is the depth.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
• There is more at stake than tax breaks and border control.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• But that was when SDSU still had something more to play for than pride.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
• More and more garden centers will have a special area for the natives.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
• Readers can learn more about the program and find out how to attend free meetings at familiesanonymous.org.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 June 2023
• The display can’t show any more frames than its refresh rate, but the game indicates 260-plus.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
• Lizzo knows there’s more to living a healthy life than trying to lose weight.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 May 2023
• Ortiz said that on the Lynwood side, there have been calls for more street safety in recent years.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Read on below: Want more recipes and tips from the Voraciously team?
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 5 June 2023
• Nolan read the 720-page book once through, secured the screen rights to it, read it through again and then once more, this time taking copious notes.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• Fast-forward to today, and there are more ways to take your games outside the living room than ever.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
• Queen Charlotte gives a bit more insight into the backstory behind the queen's right hand man and his love life.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 12 May 2023
• The Padres tacked on two more runs in the inning when Michigan native Jake Cronenworth tripled to right center field.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• But the attachment to the Senate was more visceral, Manley said.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Rapinoe will likely get more time off the bench, especially if the U.S. needs a second-half spark.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 July 2023

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2 of 3 adverb

• What more could you ask for?
• The players grew more intense as the game went on.
• It happens more often than it used to.
• It's the same product—they've done nothing more than change the label.
• The building looks more like a museum than a library.
• The shot hurt more than I expected.
• She more closely resembles her aunt than her mother.
• He struggled to find a more comfortable position.
• To me, there's nothing more exciting than playing football.
• That puts you more to the – to the right of your party.
  — CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
• That, to me, makes the show both more compelling and harder to watch.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• There are drawstrings on the hood and waist for a more custom fit.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• Since retiring, the pair have been able to join Luke on the road even more.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• Tell us more about finding these links in fashion over the years.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• That, instead, Israel needs to be much more hard-line about it, right?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Through the six episodes sent to critics, the show seems to be on more comfortable footing.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
• When traveling at a more leisurely speed of 12 to 15 knots, the range is doubled, though.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
• Read more about the many options for watching the U.S. Open online below.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
• The Spartans have scored 20 or more fast-break points in four of the five games during the win streak, including 20 against Penn State.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
• Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• But the second investigation proved to be more fraught than the first.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• This summer’s die-off happened to both wild elkhorn and to corals bred to be more heat-tolerant.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• The group aspired to paint a fuller, more nuanced picture that went beyond the image of a gangbanger.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Shoot some ewes, the biologists said, to keep even more from dying.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2024
• Twenty-five others were shot and even more were injured during that hellish scene of guns and blood.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 July 2023
• The cheers were a much more pleasant soundtrack than the boos that had filled the place after the Bruins failed to gain a first down on their first two drives of the second half.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• Smith and Stafford said the city needs to work more closely with nonprofit groups in the city that address homelessness.
  — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2023
• His physique — 6-foot-4 and shoulders made for rebounding — is more common in this era than his own.
  — Matthew Futterman James Hill, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• The setting couldn't be more beautiful and the resort has a cool rustic modern vibe.
  — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2023
• Von Rumpel’s over-the-top persona feels tired next to the more casual, chilling evil of most of the other Nazi characters.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023

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3 of 3 noun

• Weed etiquette and mores will evolve as the novelty wears off.
  — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• One speech is not enough to stitch back together those mores Trump has torn apart.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
• Here are a few ways to participate in the music, food, dance and more that D-FW has to offer.
  — Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2020
• Now, in the age of the internet, shifting cultural mores, and falling church attendance, the role of the Bible is evolving again.
  — G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2017
• Their fashion, politics, music, movies and mores would blow away the old like cobwebs in a wind tunnel.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The gangsters were partially nationalised; the state adopted some of their mores.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The details of the Sheepshead Bay case, however, suggest how much has changed through shifts in technology and mores.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
• But this is a fact about the history of literature and cinema rather than of mores.
  — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Cultural mores change gradually, but there are still flash points along the way.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2018
• But wisdom, maturity, and the changing mores of the bar have conspired, Singer says, to mellow him out, at least a little.
  — David Margolick, HWD, 6 Feb. 2017
• Then seek legal help to make sure your policies reflect today’s laws and social mores.
  — Phil Blair, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Rather, disruptive events loosen our mores just enough to permit new kinds of compassion.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
• The age of the internet, with its infinitude of strangers and swiftly evolving social mores, has also been good for con men.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
• What if our trajectories weren’t determined by the social policies and mores of the mid-1950s.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
• Disruptive events loosen our mores just enough to permit new kinds of compassion.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
• Letters are leaky in all sorts of ways — the baby wakes from the nap and cries; the air-raid siren sounds; the social mores and psychodynamics of other eras filter in.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Here are words that have changed history, governments, laws, morals, mores, marriages, and minds.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• The subtext is that women out alone might not be safe, subject not to the laws of the land but to the capricious mores of a conservative, tribal society.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 27 Sep. 2017
• In the communities that Strout creates, the mores are set by tradition, and people aren’t confused about their roles.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• At that time, the prestige of Catholicism in Ireland was virtually unquestioned, and the nation’s public mores were in line with the teachings of the church.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• The novel is set in Japan and Ghosh adapted it to an Indian context, bearing in mind the local culture and social mores.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
• These men navigate new social mores, but also spy-movie clichés.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 11 Apr. 2018
• But the difference is less the result of partisanship than the evolution of social mores.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2018
• The practitioners of both arts seem foreign to each other; the cultural mores differ.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• Church leaders had initiated witch hunts in the late 15th century, in part as a way of policing social mores.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Like many countries in Latin America, where mores have been shaped by the Catholic church, Argentina outlaws most abortions (see map).
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• The youngest humans are a fearsome force, the last source of any real vigor in society, but unrestrained by any social mores.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
• Banks can be directly regulated in a way that mores and manners can’t.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• Rather, Season 3 offers the chance to see what happens when a TV show goes post-plot, taking all the codes and mores that govern dramatic writing and cutting them loose.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2019
• Desdemona’s and Emilia’s discussion toward the end about the foibles of men has seldom felt wittier or more on point.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 June 2018

Last Updated: 7 May 2024