How to Use more in a Sentence

more

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.
  • The book has more twists and turns.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But there’s more to it than that.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • What more is there to say about love?
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s more to them than that.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026
  • One more thing to scratch off the list.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • Not much more needs to be said on that.
    Jason Lecras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Is there more wear and tear in left field?
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The right idea needs more than charm to hold up.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • Keep scrolling for more can’t-miss fall decor deals.
    Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There is always the want for more.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But that first inning led to more.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Want more stories like this one?
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • No more Star Wars toys and shirts.
    Reia Li, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Devices for body, lips and more.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Remove from oven and top with more dill to serve.
    Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • How many more jobs would be on the chopping block?
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Klassen has more work to do to tap into the vibe.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Now the karaoke night video has raised more eyebrows.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Your book talks about how that was more of a symbol.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • Produce, baked goods, crafts and more.
    Evan Moore march 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Shop more patent-leather styles, below.
    Eva Thomas, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026

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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.
  • Or, keep scrolling to shop more from the brand.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This one does seem to be much more low-key.
    ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There are more robust ways to do so.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • She was focused more on the fun.
    ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • No more waiting for the light bulb to turn on.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • Maybe even more likely than not.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Each loss was more shocking than the last.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • Over time, the egg white becomes more acidic.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Without it, the film would be even more hellish.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • His threats have grown more sharp-edged in recent days.
    Joe Walsh, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • And as well, just the style is just more focused on the in-ring.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Even more, Roseman has proven to be a star hunter.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sellers are now more worried about that wait time.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The hate gets more powerful with more hate.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Nowhere is this more visible than in medicine.
    Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • For women, the numbers are even more stark.
    Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tell us more about finding these links in fashion over the years.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • There are drawstrings on the hood and waist for a more custom fit.
    Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The cold air pushes are more narrow.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Tuesday night's game was more eventful, to say the least.
    ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The doting mom couldn't be more grateful.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026

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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
  • And then all of those mores for clothing disappear.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • These men navigate new social mores, but also spy-movie clichés.
    Tom Philip, GQ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Christiansen argues that the shows didn’t keep up with changing social mores.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Then seek legal help to make sure your policies reflect today’s laws and social mores.
    Phil Blair, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Disruptive events loosen our mores just enough to permit new kinds of compassion.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But even so, times are changing, and certain social mores and rules have fallen by the wayside.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Cultural mores change gradually, but there are still flash points along the way.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Rather, disruptive events loosen our mores just enough to permit new kinds of compassion.
    Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Banks can be directly regulated in a way that mores and manners can’t.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Both books deal with young people who are adrift, and both capture a time of rapidly changing mores and politics.
    Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • The gangsters were partially nationalised; the state adopted some of their mores.
    The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The show reflected changing social mores.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Burke believed that manners and mores, customs and norms, codes of conduct, and beauty itself made life more humane.
    Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Yet within a decade, laws were enacted, and social mores shifted—albeit very, very slowly.
    Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • This engraving is among the first of his soon-to-be famous sketches of metropolitan mores.
    Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Then contemporary mores and styles must intervene.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The practitioners of both arts seem foreign to each other; the cultural mores differ.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But what its financial success demonstrated was just how out of step the major studios were with popular mores.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Novak’s other works approach the world with the same quizzical stance toward traditional mores.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • But the difference is less the result of partisanship than the evolution of social mores.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2018
  • If bars had previously been the domain of men, places that respectable women wouldn’t be seen, new social mores suddenly changed that.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 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
  • 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
  • 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

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