How to Use more or less in a Sentence

more or less

adverb

• That was the job, more or less.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
• That, more or less, is the trade.
  — Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• Would there have been more or less F-bombs?
  — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• The pursuit was more or less a bust.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
• Out there in the middle more or less.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Shahn more or less ignored the hint.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
• So, yeah, the scene is more or less the same from the script.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
• The arms race was more or less in balance.
  — Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Back then, the path to the moon was more or less a straight line.
  — David W. Brown, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Baty was more or less that player last year.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• That doesn’t mean spending more or less.
  — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• At this point, Keanu’s game is more or less cooked.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
• Right, there is no more mind meld, which had more or less been the case.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Teaching that method looks, more or less, like his new job.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
• Those six spots have more or less been set in stone since the end of the spring.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2021
• Their stock prices had more or less flatlined for at least a decade.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• In fact, some know-it-all called this race more or less over just a week ago.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• Agathe finds her boss’s remarks dull, but more or less shares these views.
  — Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
• At least until the lake came back to more or less slap him in the face.
  — Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
• Heyer and Christie wrote at more or less the same time.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• And that was more or less the sentiment.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• This picture is still more or less correct.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
• Lips can become chapped too for more or less the same reasons.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 July 2024
• However, some plants may need more or less time than that.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026
• Most of what’s special about it is more or less on the surface.
  — New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
• That’s, more or less, the state at which Solène has arrived.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
• Of those six, two fall in love with Jackie more or less on sight.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• The fight stopped, more or less; the gun had changed the dynamic.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
• That public stance has, more or less, remained the same.
  — Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• If rates go up one point, the fund’s value goes down 6%, more or less.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025