Sentence examples for becomes something less from inspiring English sources

If saves are removed from the equation, Johnson becomes something less than spectacular.

She looks at it, and the accumulated knowledge becomes something less noisy than public love, less declarative and more touching.

But if the minority votes strictly on party lines the rule cannot work this way and becomes something less defensible in a democracy: a way for the minority to thwart the majority's wishes.And that is what nearly happened in the health debate.

First-rate food and mixed drinks together become something less than the sum of the parts.

Around that 90-minute mark, the conversation can become something less guarded and very special.

New York is not the only place where flying has become something less of an ordeal.

That it became something less is emblematic of the frustrations endured and aspirations dashed of a rights movements as old as the Republic.

You might well wonder that if you're a regular reader of The New York Times's print edition where front-page obituaries, this past year, became something less than a rarity.

BLOOMBERG NEWS A New Paranormalmal'  |  Bill Gross, managing director of Pimco, writes in his latest investor letter that the "New Normal," a phrase made popular by Pimco's Mohamed A. El-Erian, has become something less knowable, "a world of fat-tailed, almost bimodal outcomes".

In an era when wealthy candidates have become something less than a novelty, most New Yorkers said they did not mind that Mr. Bloomberg was spending so much on his own contest; some said they even preferred it.

SINCE 1938, when the Merritt Parkway opened as one of the first limited-access landscaped highways in the country, it has become something less than the relaxing, pleasant drive it was designed to be.