How to Use more or less in a Sentence

more or less

adverb

• Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the city felt quiet, remote, and more or less off the map in the eyes of the rest of the globe.
  — Ian Volner, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• The new ship is more or less a dupe of the Seabourn Venture, which launched in 2022.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• The plan for the third voyage was more or less the inverse of the second’s.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Of those six, two fall in love with Jackie more or less on sight.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Ideally, the end of your sleeve and the bottom of the jacket should more or less line up.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
• Or maybe the laptop with a little more or less hard drive space is in stock.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• The exception is the free throw, stuck more or less where it’s always been.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• Each dimmable light strip stretches 5 feet and can be set to a timer to give them more or less time to move around the room.
  — Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• The fish cannot scream; the abuse is more or less happening below the surface, out of sight.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• Too soon to say which days could see more or less storms, or what time of day storms are most likely.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• This, more or less, brings us up to date with the post-credits sequence of the Ms. Marvel Disney+ series.
  — Christian Holub and Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Its brain was about the size of a walnut, which is more or less average for sauropods, Sereno says.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• To top it off, your left or right ear may need more or less assistance than the other.
  — Sherri Gordon, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2024
• Like the subject of his big hit, Pluma will be dancing more or less alone on Grammy night.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Nonetheless, two months on, a more or less clear list of goals is emerging.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2023
• Depending on how saucy you like your dip, add more or less Frank’s Red Hot Sauce.
  — Gretchen McKay, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2023
• Hand’s approach has remained more or less the same since then.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The idea is that there are a limited number of tricks, and every one of a certain stature in the field knows them, more or less.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Eight centuries ago, more or less, present-day Ivrea was ruled by a despot, the Marquis Ranieri di Biandrate.
  — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Since once-buzzy contenders like Babylon’s Brad Pitt have faltered, the rest of the field more or less picks itself.
  — Vulture, 23 Jan. 2023
• Pity Martinez was more or less a disaster in his brief time in MLS.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Lucy Gray comes from the same district as Katniss, the 12th, which is more or less where West Virginia is today.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• Like them or not, the outdoor dining sheds that have been an upshot of the pandemic are more or less here to stay.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Forget eating more or less of just one thing, as we’re often told to do — more nuts!
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• There are also cars that are suitable, more or less, for track usage.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 27 Aug. 2023
• But at its core, Flom’s project has always been one that’s more or less personal.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• That more or less dooms his efforts from the start, even with computer vision.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• Now, the main objective of the game Go is, more or less, to capture territory.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• Both currents of backlash were more or less predictable.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024