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  • The grapes are weighed on arriving at the winery and are then conveyed either by hand or more often by a mechanical conveyor to the hopper or crusher.

  • The knife is seldom used except in summer-pruning, and here, more often, the shoots are broken out or pinched out.

  • More often, however, the rows are eight or nine feet apart, with the vines six, seven or eight and in the South ten or twelve feet apart in the rows.

  • The spoilt child, the object of such blind affection, more often responds to it by indifference, or even by ingratitude, disdain and impertinence.

  • This phenomenon may be limited to a certain woman, but it is more often general.

  • These two diseases, which are so common at the present day, only occur in old syphilitics, five to twenty years, or more often ten to fifteen years after infection, and as a rule in persons who think they have been completely cured.

  • Sometimes the boss is a man who cares for political power purely for its own sake, as he might care for any other hobby; more often he has in view some definitely selfish object such as political or financial advancement.

  • In this instance it is concrete; more often it is abstract: eum ordinem firmamentum ceterorum ordinum recte esse dicemus, Pomp.

  • Sometimes all three of these factors exert their influence on a word, more often one or both of the first two make the meaning clear.

  • Reverend Mother, I did not say 'more often than what,' but 'more often.

  • The hour struck opportunely, for it cut short the "more often.

  • I do not understand you; why do you say 'more often'?

  • It may be brought about by a constipated state of the bowels, but it is more often due to derangements of the digestive apparatus.

  • Mourning jewellery was usually set with pearls, garnets, or more often jet.

  • This is either in the form of a clasp, or more often a buckle.

  • The crystal covering is sometimes cut in table form, but is more often rose-cut.

  • Every one from the highest rank downwards had his personal devise or impresa, or more often a series of them.

  • Lakes Huron and Superior; in the United States, except in New England, more often a shrub than a tree; on the Appalachian Mountains usually low, with narrower leaflets and smaller fruit than northward.

  • Shoulder atrophy such as the general practitioner commonly meets with, is an affection, more often seen in young animals and it seems to be due to injuries of various kinds which contuse the muscles of the shoulder.

  • The fetlock region is exposed to more frequent injury than is the carpus and as a consequence is more often affected.

  • In the young and robust the pulse may be full and bounding, but it is more often compressible or small and weak.

  • More often, a dream resembles a daydream in being a train of thoughts and images without much relation to present sensory stimuli; and then the dream {501} would come under the definition of hallucination instead of illusion.

  • More often, we hear a person drawing a conclusion from only one expressed premise, and try to make out what the missing premise can be.

  • We may be baffled and confused for an instant, and have sensation without any definite perception; or, more often, we make a rapid series of trial and error perceptions.

  • The demonstrativeness of grief or sorrow is not at all in proportion to the emotion felt; it is more often based on the effort to get sympathy and help.

  • Excessive smoking may cause "nervousness" but as a matter of fact it is more often a means by which the excessively nervous try to relieve themselves.

  • For it is true that the objective minded are more often robust, hearty, with more natural lust, passion and desire than your introspectionists, more virile and less sensitive to fine impressions.

  • On the other hand, we generally regard Gosling as a nickname, while it is more often a variant of Jocelyn.

  • This, in the records of the Elizabethan voyagers, is more often called by its Spanish name tiburon, whence Cape Tiburon, in Haiti.

  • Lady Wantley was one of those fortunate people--more often to be found in a former generation than in our own--to whom their human possessions appear to be well-nigh perfect.

  • More often it appoints special Commissioners to act as arbitrators, or refers petitioners to the Justices of Assize in their county, with a request to take local evidence and inform the Council what they advise.

  • More often it is carried out with a high hand by the farmer and the lord, who, once they take seriously to cattle-breeding or sheep-farming, have naturally no desire to have a limit set to their investment in stock.

  • More often, at any rate in the cases arising out of the economic questions with which we are chiefly concerned, it issues an order, and leaves the punishment of breaches of it to the Court of Star Chamber and the Court of Requests.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more often" 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:
    full stop; more acceptable; more accurately; more agreeable; more appropriate; more children; more correctly; more curious; more direct; more effectually; more especially; more favorable; more generally; more have; more important; more intense; more numerous; more probably; more rapid; more rapidly; more regular; more sensitive; more severe; more shall; more striking; more trouble