Sentence examples for progressively less so from inspiring English sources

Over a breakfast that started out dauntingly healthy (Srebnick served oatmeal and fruit, and offered a bottle of vitamins) and grew progressively less so (toast and eggs, Brie, chocolate-coated rugalach), owner and conservator discussed the state of the painting that Srebnick referred to as "my baby".

"The first time was really weird, but it's got progressively less so – but you'll never quite get used to it.

While this may be mildly amusing the first time you come across it, it gets progressively less so after three years.

Lydia calls Slade out on this, and the "joke," which isn't funny to begin with, becomes progressively less so as Slade tries to rationalize it as a compliment.

This shows that the activation pattern to any particular frequency resembles the activation to neighboring frequencies but progressively less so for more distant frequencies.

Using breath-by-breath measurement of end tidal PetCO2 or PetO2 to estimate their corresponding arterial levels preceding each breath is problematic, because end tidal levels are not always reliable estimates of arterial levels at rest and become progressively less so as systemic PvCO2 increases with metabolic rate (see Figure 1).

But while reduction to dumbness is initially a resonant metaphor in a piece about censorship, the wordlessness is so prolonged that it becomes progressively less eloquent.

He got back a report that said 5,000 shares had been sold for 299¾, the next 2,000 for 2995/8, and so on, each lot selling for progressively less, with the last sold at 298¾.

Muller found that this complicated the video too much, so each sequence shows Stefani with progressively less makeup instead.

Instead one must posit a long process of gradual evolutionary change in which progressively evolved offspring inhabited progressively less brackish water, with each new species' physiology incrementally changing so that it was well evolved for its ionic environment, until the transition to being able to live in completely fresh water was achieved.

Ironizing was muted, even covert, in the Great War, less so in the Second, rampant during Vietnam as progressively the people of the century lost their innocence, learned more about the realities, believed and did less and less of what they were told.