Sentence examples for familiar less from inspiring English sources

"It's more familiar, less suburban".

In each case, the more fluent concept seems more familiar, less risky, less threatening, and more trustworthy — and the same is true of stocks and, more broadly, of economic decisions.

Some team officials have linked the bullpen's troubles to Wagner's injury and suggested their other relievers will rebound once they return to more familiar, less prominent roles next season.

Autobiographies and memoirs have made such a subject curiously familiar – less original, and perhaps less valuable, than the attempt to imagine how a family inevitably seen and described as "happy" shaped one of its children to become that unhappy woman.

Yet she has come to know so much about the history that the characters from this distant time seem more familiar, less peculiar, than those who inhabit any of her other novels.

About all that is missing is a well-chosen Italian wine list that bypasses the high-price regions of Tuscany and the Piedmont in favor of less familiar, less expensive areas.

As on the recording, the familiar and less familiar were balanced thoughtfully.

To those fingers, the new DmC is familiar, though less stressful than its predecessors.

(Dimon loves to illustrate banking verities with examples from more familiar, and less threatening, industries).

The next segment, "New Yorkers in Paris," had songs by Ned Rorem, Paul Bowles, Copland, Gershwin and Berlin, some familiar, some less so.

And development is bringing problems, familiar and less familiar.Jetties and harbour breakwalls have weakened natural sea defences.