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
  • But all the more so in the churning times — as is evident in examples good and bad all over.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
  • All the more so if the players in question were amateur actors.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • All the more so that he's been so poor in important situations.
    Katie Woo, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • All the more so now with her enduring and inimitable legacy re-discovered and back in view.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2025
  • History still seeps in, and all the more so when the details have largely been forgotten or obscured.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The encounter is deeply uncomfortable, all the more so because each man has taken the full measure of the other.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Her work always seemed to me savage and relentlessly bleak, all the more so because her prose was so tidy, so carefully controlled.
    Jess Row, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • All the more so because racial preferences are increasingly infecting healthcare and medicine.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The pressure on him to perform, as a result, is much higher — all the more so if Marner remains without a contract extension.
    Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Soft tissue turned to glass marks a strange and striking find, all the more so because the conversion to glass, a process known as vitrification, rarely happens in nature.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Psychopaths are generally charming and intelligent at first blush, successful psychopaths all the more so.
    Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 25 May 2023
  • All the more so given the turbulence among top tech companies and the still very-real limitations of today’s AI.
    Allison Salisbury, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • 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 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
  • Miłosz’s clarity about such questions is inspiring, all the more so because his situation in the Poland of 1947 was so extreme.
    Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The situation remains combustible, all the more so thanks to Brexit, which 56 percent of Northern Irish voters opposed.
    Jonathan Stevenson, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2019
  • For an artist who had spent decades studying and painting the human body, the opportunity to observe the evolving bodies of her children was fascinating, all the more so because their flesh had been generated by her own.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • 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

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