Sentence examples for were less energetic from inspiring English sources

A German study presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior last year showed that after just one night of sleep disruption the volunteers in the study were less energetic (so used up fewer calories) but hungrier.

After controlling for potential confounders (viz., age and family income), regression analyses showed that obese boys in grades 3 and 4 had more difficulties running, playing sports, and doing exercise, and were less energetic than their normal-weight counterparts.

The bidding was less energetic at the other table where Scotland sat East-West.

Still, the sections on the 60's and beyond are less energetic than those chronicling the early years, maybe because the iconoclasts had become respectable.

These dealers have warned that they may be less energetic in selling models made by those automakers that do not fight back against online sales.

Staff members said Mrs. Mayersohn was physically healthy but had been less energetic and had grown tired of commuting to Albany in recent months.

Had the virus not affected some white men living in the country's most prosperous region, the response might have been less energetic, some suggest under their breath.

Surveys show that companies are leery of hiring and retaining older workers because of concerns that they are less energetic, less productive, less adaptable and more likely to have outdated skills than younger workers.

And if he was less energetic than usual and escaped after shaking just a few hands, at least that shortened the shadow he cast over the less-charismatic Mr. Kerry.

If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.

He was less energetic, however, when it came to standing up to Argentina's military dictatorship during the 1970s as the country was consumed by a conflict between right and left that became known as the Dirty War.