Sentence examples for less a word from inspiring English sources

"I have never touched a typewriter, and still less a word processor.

For Lionel, "Hello" was less a word than a series of intertwining moods: pensive, optimistic, questioning.

But as the Belfast writer Jan Carson puts it in her upcoming novel, "The Fire Starters": "Troubles is too less a word for all of this.

Less a word and more a series of noises.

This follows Oxford Dictionaries' decision last month to name an emoji (the tears of joy emoji, to be specific) which is even less a word than a suffix is, as their word of the year.

Hipster as it's used refers to a specific type of person that likes a specific type of thing, and because Our Dumbest whites can't stop giggle-shrieking the word long enough to figure out the type of person or thing in question, what we're talking about is more less a word than a sneering sound.

Its passengers understood: In the eyes of the world, they were considered "less-than". Less valued, less significant, less human in a word, as one of the passengers once put it, expendable.

But if she wants to sound presidential, then sticking to what really matters (as Palin puts it) without throwing in little cracks about a universally agreed-upon problem would be a lot less, in a word, distracting.

It has doubled his writing speed, which had gradually fallen to less than a word a minute after he lost the use of his hands and had to give up using a hand switch.

The Cheerleader: When we are feeling less steady, a word of acknowledgement that we are doing well and moving the needle can go a long way toward keeping our motivation alive.

After all, financial liberalisation is now more or less a swear word in policy cicles, right?