How to Use less and less in a Sentence

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• There is less and less to fear for them in the Premier League.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
• 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
• That began the long period of becoming less and less relevant.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
• Thus, as that outer layer is whittled away, there is less and less material to be stripped away in subsequent episodes.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
• Williams never officially retired, but as the years passed, a return to tennis seemed less and less likely.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
• Americans are paying more and more — and getting less and less — for healthcare coverage overall.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2026
• The country is becoming less and less convinced that its soldiers can win and that Putin has a realistic plan.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2026
• The models themselves are doing less and less to redirect them to appropriate care pathways.
  — Arya Rao, STAT, 19 Aug. 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
• Reddington’s cross-examinations of Clancy’s health-care providers yielded less and less as the trial progressed.
  — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 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
• And without that increase in spin, there is no shortening of periods between episodes, meaning less and less material being stripped would result in dimming.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 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
• The absence of rainfall that typically accompanies monsoon storms this time of year has resulted in wildfire operations needing to be more nimble to ignitions that are less and less predictable.
  — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 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
• While the 26-year-old, acquired from Miami over the winter, has gradually used his heater less and less, Tuesday marked the second straight game that all of his other pitches saw more action.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 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
• Congressional Republicans have grown more conservative, congressional Democrats have become more liberal, and members of the two parties agree on less and less.
  — Christopher A. Cooper, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
• Sadly, less and less is going towards actual medical care; administrative costs are taking up an ever-larger share of the healthcare pie, as the industry is increasingly being dominated by large insurance companies.
  — Matt Soper, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2026
• Tropical Storm Marie, which was downgraded from a hurricane on Sunday, continues to push to the northwest, becoming less and less of a factor in Southern California's weather.
  — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026
• Meanwhile, degraded working conditions—see, the adjunctification discourse—make academic professionalization less and less sustainable.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 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
• The team is less and less the one built by Jeff Gorton and John Davidson, who acquired most of the players on the 2022 and 2024 rosters that made the Eastern Conference final, and more and more Drury’s own.
  — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026