Sentence examples for turn less from inspiring English sources

They sit and wait in that cloud for several minutes, for the air to turn less gravelly.

But only in Silicon Valley can a couple of 20-somethings turn less than two years of work into a $1bn £630mm) fortune.

A music blogger who goes by Mobb Deen, who has a bit of an obsession with this particular mondegreen, has since defined "fanute" as: 1. v., To convert; to turn less into more via "swag".

The trial of Dharun Ravi promises to turn less on what happened between him and Tyler Clementi in September 2010 — there is general agreement about most of the events — than on why.

In 1997, it spent 0.63% of GDP on R&D, about one-third of the EU average (which is in turn less than the average for all OECD countries).

The volume of applicants is still so great that the management usually has to turn less vulnerable people away, "sometimes by 10am or 11am", said Joakim Selen, deputy head of the centre's asylum seeking unit.

But the music has turned less antiquarian.

Yet she turns less beastly around beasts.

Bank lending standards are tight, but turning less tight.

On the river, the mood turned less chipper.

However, the headline turned less dire upon closer inspection.