How to Use less and less in a Sentence

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• The population that has stayed is forced to get by with less and less.
  — Mat Nashed, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2026
• People in this group will also become less and less able to stand up to the bot.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
• There is less and less of it as the series goes on, because the idea was to be as sparing with it as possible.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 June 2026
• But with alcohol consumption hitting record lows, the home bar is less and less of a design default.
  — Elyse Moody, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
• Meanwhile, 2026’s most notable failures have followed rulebooks that seem less and less valuable.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
• In the years that followed, her grandmother started going less and less, while McKinstrie and her friends would still spend summers there.
  — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
• Along the way, the models also become more generalizable—extending them to new settings takes less and less fine-tuning to reach the same accuracy.
  — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2026
• Writing a Check Writing checks has gotten less and less common thanks to the prominence of online bill pay and the ease of paying with a card or via app (like Venmo).
  — Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 30 June 2026
• What was once revolutionary for its language and perspective now can scan as retrograde to some contemporary audiences as books become less and less connective for modern teens.
  — Adam Messinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
• That means Earth's only natural satellite is getting less and less full and bright each night as its crescent gets thinner and thinner, NASA explains.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 July 2026
• As the Emirates and Saudi Arabia fall back from the field of battle, this theory applies less and less, and Iran’s rationale becomes more and more untenable.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
• In summer 2026, fashion brands are offering less and less chunky sandals and instead leaning into minimalist cage-toe designs and thin ankle straps that delicately wrap around the foot.
  — René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 3 July 2026
• Recently, these manufacturers have been allocating more of their limited capacity to higher-margin HBM chips, which is leaving less and less capacity for DRAM chips.
  — Srikanth Jagabathula, Fortune, 24 July 2026