Sentence examples for it something less from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, he said, "we would have named it something less threatening, like Tiffany or Bambi".

Was it a substance banned by international treaty, like sarin or VX? Or was it something less virulent?

Aggressive Googling might yield more, but really — this is not the stuff of rigorous social science, and one could call it something less pleasant as well.

3.5″ long and 3oz in weight makes it something less than a minimal accessory, but it's not quite the 4.7″ of the original.

"I said a silent prayer: ‘Lord, take care of me now.'" Kittinger then asked, "What did you say?" I struggled for a polite way to express it: "Something less devout".

Some might term it something less.

For victims, it was something less philosophical--it was a terrifying transformation that even a child could feel.

Then Jay Landers at Columbia thought no, that's really reducing it to something less than what it is.

For example, he said, "when humans are exposed to arsenic, our microbes use their genes and proteins to convert it to something less toxic — or more toxic, it can go either way — and we don't know exactly why.

If you get your score back and it's something less than great, learn from it and study next time.

"'That relationship – your relationship – is something different; it is something less; your commitment is denied.' And it's that idea of difference, of alien, of other that is at the root of all bullying, including homophobic bullying".