As the clock ticked on, the Russian play was becoming less fluent as frustration began to set in at their failure to score despite almost total domination.
The duress under which they were written renders them sparer and less fluent than he was at his best.
Clearly less fluent than the vice president, he hesitated at times and gave incomplete replies at others, but on occasion he seemed more spontaneous and less programmed than Mr. Gore.
Morgan was less fluent and then gobsmacked when Dasun Shanaka, at backward point, hurled himself to his right to take a brilliant diving catch just as Joe Hart used to do.
Robson, dropped cutting on nine by Kumar Sangakkara at first slip, was less fluent but settled, before Gareth Batty drifted one past his outside edge in the first over after lunch, and Ben Foakes stumped him.
When she met Hale onstage at the Bolshoi, she was less fluent in English than in German, French, and Italian.
Sangakkara, scorer of a century and a half-century in the drawn first Test at Lord's, was far less fluent in Leeds and the beneficiary of England mistakes.
As P. mexicana do not have distinct colour spots but a more or less fluent colouration, we decided to measure the colouration at 10 different body regions).
People who still call themselves Mexican-American at that point are often less educated and less fluent in English than their better-assimilated cousins, notably the children of mixed marriages, who may no longer identify themselves as Mexican.
As adults, if we are encouraged to look continuously at a listener while we are speaking, our speech becomes disjointed, less fluent and may finally become derailed (Beattie, 1981).
