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Example sentences for "more serious"

  • Fraud includes deceit, but deceit may not reach the gravity of fraud; a cheat is of the nature of fraud, but of a petty sort; a swindle is more serious than a cheat, involving larger values and more flagrant dishonesty.

  • That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance.

  • The softness of the air, the stillness of the foliage, tacitly imposed upon these young girls an engagement to change immediately their giddy conversation for one of a more serious character.

  • Well then, yes--" "This is more serious than I thought.

  • The first consideration proved to be a more serious matter.

  • We have Bridge's word for this; and the matter would hardly be worth mentioning if it had not led to more serious proceedings.

  • But the ordinances as to the salt-tax were maintained in principle, and their extension led, some years afterwards, to a rising of a more serious character, and very differently repressed.

  • More serious causes of resentment came to aggravate a situation already so uncomfortable.

  • But, what is more serious, we have discouraged that boy.

  • Failure to enforce health laws is a more serious menace to health and morals than drunkenness or tobacco cancer.

  • Then a more serious application to the earlier stages of that somewhat lengthy road which every aspirant must plod who would follow the artist's career.

  • But its author had long been preparing for a more serious undertaking.

  • Many of the financial convulsions of the ensuing years, which were due to more serious causes, were attributed to this indiscriminate removal of restrictions, and they were reimposed in 1801.

  • Aristotle proceeded to a more serious investigation of the aesthetic phenomena so as to develop by scientific analysis certain principles of beauty and art.

  • As to your apprehensions concerning the more advantageous situation of Ireland for some branches of commerce, (for it is so but for some,) I trust you will not find them more serious.

  • A civil war of paper might end in a more serious war; for now remonstrance met remonstrance, and memorial was opposed to memorial.

  • The subject matter may, perhaps, hereafter appear to merit a more serious consideration.

  • To these sources of dissatisfaction is added a more serious factor.

  • The puberty of a psychopathic is a crisis of more serious import.

  • Anna had already heard somewhere a more serious version, namely, that children, are little angels living in heaven, and are brought from heaven by the stork.

  • Sometimes the resistances are of a more serious character.

  • They were merely establishing contact as a prelude to more serious operations.

  • A more serious effect of the rain was to jeopardize the supply arrangements by rendering the roads almost impassable.

  • At Cattaro the mutiny took a more serious turn.

  • A more serious cause of constipation, and sometimes of intestinal obstruction, is found in stenosis of the bowel from the healing of the ulcers of long-standing chronic catarrh.

  • In chronic gout and in connection with the granular kidney a more serious form of glycosuria is occasionally observed.

  • Of a more serious nature is the tape-worm embryo which produces the hydatid tumor.

  • It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what.

  • His tones were becoming lower and more serious; there were slight breaks once or twice in the conversation; Myrtle had cast down her eyes.

  • The other is of more serious purport, and applies to such as contemplate a change of condition,--matrimony, in fact.

  • Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause.

  • He now lived in a more serious vein, and felt a deeper, more satisfying happiness.

  • His difference with Felton was of a more serious kind.

  • For those who think with him, the Serbs, in uniting with the Croats, have already surmounted a more serious obstacle.

  • One part of it consists of poetry of a more serious character, such as hymns, moral poems, and especially satirical pieces.

  • There had arisen, however, by the side of this satire which smelt somewhat too much of the tavern, another satire, more serious, which still contained a little of the style of Rabelais.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more serious" 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:
    easterly wind; long suit; more able; more acceptable; more active; more ancient; more clearly; more curious; more direct; more feet; more gently; more have; more human; more light; more marked; more moderate; more modern; more numerous; more perfect; more precious; more questions; more seen; more species; more specifically; more then; sharp angle