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Example sentences for "less extent"

  • To a greater or less extent in all ordinary cases both categories of operation will have to be put in motion from the beginning.

  • Every case will assuredly depart from the normal to a greater or less extent, and it is equally certain that the greatest successes in war have been the boldest departures from the normal.

  • At one time he will find the word used to express the antithesis of division or dispersal of force; at another, to express strategic deployment, which implies division to a greater or less extent.

  • A peculiar feature of the drainage of the state is the large number of subterranean streams and of springs, always found to a greater or less extent in limestone regions.

  • The sepals are sometimes free or separate from each other, at other times they are united to a greater or less extent; in the former case, the calyx is polysepalous, in the latter gamosepalous or monosepalous.

  • The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

  • And American women, to a greater or less extent, have inherited similar tastes and habits.

  • All the customs and habits of such a nation, are, to a greater or less extent, regulated by this principle.

  • The endocardium is often blotched to a greater or less extent by sanguineous imbibition.

  • Sometimes the other side becomes affected likewise, but to a less extent.

  • The special liability of infants and children, and to a less extent of very old persons, and the greater dangers they run, call for the most careful selection of appropriate diet at these periods of life.

  • It forbade the practices that had been followed to a greater or less extent by the executive heads of various departments for twenty years.

  • Female somewhat less, with the black on the forehead and throat tinged with brown, the crimson patch on the head of less extent, the sides and rump destitute of red.

  • The occipital segment is completely ossified, and an interorbital septum or bony partition separating the two orbits is usually developed to a greater or less extent.

  • The cartilaginous cranium is always covered with external membrane bone to a greater or less extent, and the suspensorium is markedly hyostylic.

  • These are roofed over to a greater or less extent by the development of membrane bone.

  • The several bones remain longest distinguishable in the Ratitae and to a less extent in the Penguins.

  • It seldom happens that one is seriously damaged without the other suffering to a greater or less extent.

  • There is also shortening of the muscles inserted into the tendo Achillis, and to a less extent of the tibiales anterior and posterior.

  • In flat-foot the medial border appears in the print to a greater or less extent (Fig.

  • In dogs this is true to a less extent than in horses.

  • This may perhaps be explained in part by saying that what is true of the women of the class is true to a less extent also of the men.

  • A group may evidently attain such a predatory attitude with a greater or less degree of completeness, so that its scheme of life and canons of conduct may be controlled to a greater or less extent by the predatory animus.

  • This may occur with or without rupture of the vessels, and to a greater or less extent, according to the violence of the action, and the texture of the part.

  • A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.

  • The student of anatomy is perfectly well aware that there is not a single organ of the human body the structure of which does not vary, to a greater or less extent, in different individuals.

  • In older ones, the reign of the primitive has, to a greater or less extent, ceased, and the reign of the artificial has become the rule.

  • To a greater or less extent we all sigh for finality.

  • The census shows about two hundred and fifty distinct industries pursued to a greater or less extent.

  • Other States gave up local government to a greater or less extent, while still others sought to lessen the negro vote by strict registration laws and by the imposition of poll taxes.

  • It is not surprising that men continued to turn for leadership to those who had led in battle and, to a less extent, to those who had taken part in the civil government of the Confederacy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "less extent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animal structure; command again; gazed around; less affected; less amount; less certain; less dangerous; less distinctly; less elongated; less extent; less flattened; less frequently; less general; less marked; less numerous; less sterile; less then; less white; lesser extent; proper person; radiotelephone communications; readily detected; tertiary strata; the altar; thy son; will believe