Dictionary Entry
Approximately.
In a Sentence
“There are hundred people in the room, more or less.”
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Poetry examples for “more or less”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And forth I went, untimely stirr’d
To make my misery more or less.
I went, beneath the heated noon,
Read full poem →To leave no mark, a tap upon the heart
That shocked the muscles more or less obscure
That bind the auricles and ventricles,
Read full poem →With you and with your artichokes:
You have the vision, more or less.”
Read full poem →international tongue common to the excessively cultivated, and to those
more or less familiar with French literature of the first three-fourths
of the nineteenth century.
Read full poem →Four of the clock it was then, as I guess,
For eleven foot, a little more or less,
My shadow was at thilke time, as there,
Read full poem →That 'tis not a mere woman that is she,
But must or more or less than woman be.
Read full poem →47. There are/owr of these iron regions, all differing, more or less,
in geological and mineral characters, as follows :
Read full poem →That 'tis not a mere woman that is she,
But must or more or less than woman be.
Read full poem →That 'tis not a mere woman, that is she,
But must or more or less than woman be.