Use fewer in a sentence
Sentences starting with fewer
- Fewer books might be published. [4]
Sentences ending with fewer
- As the weeks went by, the relapses certainly became fewer. [9]
- The rule is rigid that there must be three duels on each of these days; there are generally more, but there cannot be fewer. [5]
- She briefly but clearly explained to him who the maiden was whose hand he had held by the lake, and whom he had seen again at Serapion's house; and as she went on his interruptions became fewer. [10]
- I don't think any more of you than I did then, and I don't think any less, and I don't want to see you any more or any fewer. [11]
Sentences containing fewer two or more times
- The fewer outworks to the citadel of belief, the fewer points there are to be threatened and endangered. [6]
- I had cleared the eight-barred gate, which few come in sight of, and fewer, far fewer, go over, a year before. [6]
More example sentences with the word fewer in them
- And if more were taken because of annexation, still there would be just so many the fewer left where they were taken from. [7]
- In its application we know there will be incidents temporarily painful; but, after all, those incidents will be fewer and less intense with than without the system. [7]
- They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]
- We have fewer troops in the field at the end of the six days than we had at the beginning--the attrition among the old outnumbering the addition by the new. [7]
- These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before. [12]
- The dwarf pointed to the Regent, and said: "If he there wielded the sceptre, there would be fewer orphans and beggars by the Nile. [10]
- Him I knew to possess fewer gifts, but I knew him also to be what you could never be. [11]
- If true, I thought it but another proof of the undermining influence of feminine flattery, which few men, and fewer young men, can stand. [9]
- Such a journey this man had made as few have ever attempted, and fewer accomplished. [11]
- He boldly took the whole responsibility for what happened, and his darkened mind found justification in the belief that among the hundreds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians. [2]
- As I neared the village I saw that there were fewer lights--torches and fires--than usual on the river. [11]
- His "corrobboree" of the Australian wilds reappears in De Maurier's Belgravian ballrooms, with clothes and the smirk of civilization added; Botticelli's "Spring" is the "corrobboree" further idealized, but with fewer clothes and more smirk. [5]
- Two weeks following the above he wrote Redpath that he would accept no more engagements at any price, outside of New England, and added, "The fewer engagements I have from this time forth the better I shall be pleased. [5]
- We were fewer than you were, and we knew it; we felt more intensely that if each were not for all, then none was for any. [8]
- Also fewer folk stood gossiping with her grandfather in the Place du Vier Prison, or by the well at the front door--so far he had not wondered why. [11]
- The excitement was so great, however, that only a very few of them knew what they were saying, and fewer still knew that Dennis Doane had risked his life to save the man he had been stalking for weeks past. [11]
- The quicker you send, the fewer you will have to send. [7]
- The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete, and a fine success, but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
- The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete and a fine success; but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
- There was none other to rival him, few to comprehend him, fewer still to sustain him. [6]
- There were several of the cards; more than several, in fact; no fewer than five were sent in one day. [5]
- The consequence was late marriages, and fewer than there ought to be, and other ill results. [4]
- As for me, I might perchance have fewer suitors, but if one should pay his court to me, he would have no thought but for Margery, and how she looked and moved. [10]
- Of the three hundred and thirty men who had set out from Moscow fewer than a hundred now remained. [2]
- One might end his days here in serene retrospection, and more cheaply than in other places of fewer attractions, for it is all Past and no Future. [4]
- Twice a day he had descended to the dining room for a simple meal--that was all; and fewer had gained entrance to Room Number 7 this session than ever before. [9]
- But man, perhaps, has somewhat fewer instincts than those possessed by the animals which come next to him in the series. [1]
- Every State which has fallen off from the Whig cause since 1840 has done so not by giving more Democratic votes than they did then, but by giving fewer Whig. [7]
- The Persians and Greeks, being by descent related to ourselves, present fewer difficulties in this respect than the Egyptians, whose dwelling-place on the fruitful islands won by the Nile from the Desert, completely isolated them from the rest of the world. [10]
- If we were fewer in numbers than you, I think that you could whip us; if we were equal, it would likely be a drawn battle; but being inferior in numbers, you will make nothing by attempting to master us. [7]
- But only a few floated for any length of time, and still fewer were ever seen by the generation succeeding that which launched them. [4]
- There are few families who can accept with ease the introduction of a stranger into their midst, even for a time, and there are fewer strangers who can with impunity be introduced. [9]
- The term "disuse" does not relate merely to the lessened action of muscles, but includes a diminished flow of blood to a part or organ, from being subjected to fewer alternations of pressure, or from becoming in any way less habitually active. [1]
- True, these things could not be avoided, if the flight was to succeed, and the further Anukis advanced in her story, the fewer became her mistress's objections to the plan. [10]
- Then charge upon charge ensued, and each charge, if it cost them much, cost the besieged more, by reason of their fewer numbers. [11]
- When they got by all the canyons and gullies opening into the Pass they went faster and with fewer halts. [13]
- They have been brought by my orders, and are in the anteroom-carefully covered up, of course, for the fewer the persons who see them the better. [10]
- If they had been less rich, if their house had been small, if their acquaintances had been fewer, if . [11]
- One summer and autumn there had been poor fishing and shooting, the caches of meat were fewer on the plains, and almost nothing had come up to Fort O'Call from Edmonton, far below. [11]
- We shan't market any fewer than 5,000 machines in 15 years--a return of fifteen thousand dollars for one thousand. [5]
- It was noticeable also that though the mills were running in Manitou, there were fewer chimneys smoking, and far more men in the streets than usual. [11]
- With a less adventurous man we had had fewer happenings. [11]
- With Philip as adopted son and heir there would be fewer spoils of office; with Philip as duke there would be none at all, for the instinct of distrust and antipathy was mutual. [11]
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