Sentence examples for and then less from inspiring English sources

Roddy and I traded waves warily, and then less warily.

Did Campbell become more sexy in 2000 – and then less so a year later?

Others also feed it fish and then, less successfully, the newspaper it was wrapped in.

As an architect, I think about the old design directives: Less is More (and then Less is a Bore).

("Just last month, I bought a thirty-two-inch flat-screen TV!") And then less absurd feelings arrived.

From scene to scene, the actors are good and then less so, while the direction wavers from assured to unsteady.

And then, less nervously, to Philadelphia, where we live now, and where we bought our first home this December.

Over the two hours that we've been chatting, I've had to say several times, gently and then less gently, that I'd really like to speak to Paula alone.

And then, less than half a century after Longfellow's death, the modernist braves circled and shot him down like a dazed buffalo.

Over sandwiches, he talked first about the Yankees, who were enjoying a summer of blissful accomplishment, and then, less happily, about the Clintons, who were not.

In other words, the regional node representing the highest proportion of lesion voxels was deleted first and then less-lesioned nodes were incrementally deleted.