How to use "greater" in a sentence

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

Perhaps her anxiety about the public's reaction to Magyck! Was causing her to recall the greater anxiety she had felt about Danny

And if Michael had slipped into the house like a little boy playing a cruel prank, if he had written that message on the chalkboard, then his hatred of her was far greater than she had thought

She was filled with a new dread, a fear greater than the one that had burned within her during the past few hours

Dombey's concern for the kid was greater than his fear of being trapped underground and buried alive, and finally his attack of claustrophobia diminished

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

This certainly gave the Martians much greater strength

The man who had run away had now stopped and turned and was following my brother at a greater distance.

The silence grew greater