How to use "less" in a sentence

That means I've cycled thirteen kilometres in less than two hours

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it - break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first

Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding

I can do no less.

So in less than fifteen minutes the Ripper took Catherine into Mitre square, killed her, mutilated her horribly, and escaped - right under the noses of the police! His escape was amazing

Fantine earned less and less money from her sewing, and the Thenardiers demanded more and more money to look after Cosette

He sent money every Monday to Thenardier, who was in prison, which meant that he had even less money for himself

The barricades were finished in less than an hour and, with the sound of drums in the city growing louder, Enjolras brought a table out into the street and sat down with his friends for a drink.

The image I remember of Catherine tied to the grey stone is in less fog, and I think that it must be on higher ground.

"No, Darling, she means nothing to me, less than nothing

Perhaps the less she knows, the better.

He has at least ten minutes; no jury can make a decision in less than ten minutes.

The sun is lower in the sky now, it's a little less hot, and the radio keeps him company with old songs about love and women, rock and roll and country music

She starts to feel better: more relaxed and less concerned about the reason why the tube is so quiet today.

Studying at home helped with overcrowding, used less energy, and made teaching easier: well, that's what the government said.

Her legs had stopped trembling, more or less, and she wanted to get out of there

That was all they had to make this separation less painful.

Sometimes she took Apat with her, though he was less enthusiastic now that Cham couldn't go with them

They're coming today?' I said, feeling less happy than before.

Why not? The more that she considered it, the less crazy it seemed

She opened her eyes with a start because her mental image of him was too vivid, less like a memory than like a vision

Although Michael was still living in town, less than a mile from her, he was, in some respects, as far away and as unreachable as Danny.

In less than seventeen hours - at 8:00 P.M., December 30 - the Golden Pyramid Hotel would present a special, invitational, VIP premiere of Magyck! , and the following night, New Year's Eve, the show would open to the general public

Six months later she and Michael separated, and less than five months after the separation, they were divorced.

Along the entire Strip and in the less posh but nonetheless jammed casinos downtown, things were jumping, sparking.

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

The electronic squeal began to warble faster, but it was no quieter, no less bone penetrating than it had been.

He was interested primarily in learning more about the mind that could create a work like Magyck! He had seen less than one-fourth of the program, yet he knew it was a hit - and far superior to others of its kind

She'd been asleep less than three hours.

You understand what I'm saying - the less a guy knows, the less he can be nailed for later

The entire battle had taken less than ten seconds.

Elliot had the awful feeling that this guy would reach for the button Tina had pushed less than a minute ago, and that the garage door would lift just as the black van was rolling slowly by in the street.

Then, he'd had the resiliency of youth and had been less burdened with respect for death than he was now

Tina appeared to be no less pessimistic about their hope of escape than he was

Regulations on banks and real estate agents and on everyone else - except casino owners - are less troublesome here than in other states, which takes a burden off everybody, but which is especially attractive to people trying to spend and invest dirty cash

The land began to rise toward Mount Charleston where, less than an hour away, pine forests were mantled with snow

Something both more and less than human

There's less to be frightened of up there than here

Her heartbeat became less like the pounding of a jackhammer, but it still did not settle into a normal rhythm; now it was affected by excitement rather than terror

I'm going to keep looking for some less exotic explanation."

The longer he thought about it, the less Kennebeck was able to believe that the Evans woman knew the truth about her son

"We've got less than an hour, so there might not be time

Although he was struggling to cast off the seizure of claustrophobia that had gripped him, was trying to pretend that the organic-looking ceiling wasn't pressing low over his head and that only open sky hung above him instead of thousands of tons of concrete and steel rock, his own panic attack concerned him less than what was happening beyond the viewport.

The Department of Defense, which was less flush than Health and Welfare these days, was nevertheless also guilty of waste, and it was good for at least another billion a year

"And if I don't stay here, if I walk away and get a job at a civilian research center, that'll be just one less rational voice in this place

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

The whole thing lasted less than a second.

Shaking with fear, I did as he asked, and in less than five minutes I was back

At most, people believed there might be living things on Mars, perhaps less developed than us and ready to welcome visitors

We, the people who live on this Earth, must seem to them at least as different and less developed as monkeys are to us

One night, when the first missile was probably less than 15,000,000 kilometres away, I went for a walk with my wife

I think everyone expected to see a man come out - possibly something a little unlike us on Earth, but more or less a man

With wine and food and the need to help my wife feel less afraid, I slowly became braver and felt safer.

The Heat- Ray came down to the water's edge less than fifty metres from where I stood

London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night not knowing much and caring even less, was woken in the early hours of Monday morning to a real sense of danger.

The less brave of the two attackers ran away, and the other one followed cursing him

There was a sharp bend in the road, less than fifty metres from the crossroads

He got to his feet and saw to the right, less than a hundred metres away, the warship cutting through the water at full speed, throwing enormous waves out on either side.

The top of a Martian fighting-machine came into sight over the house tops, less than a hundred metres away from us

At a later date we began to feel less in danger of being seen because the sunlight outside was very bright, but at first anything approaching the house drove us back into the hall in fear

'Well, it's difficult to do less work than old J,' George added.

In January 2018, she left her job in China because the BBC were paying women less than men

They are often paid less, and sexism and sexual harassment at work are a problem every day

When she won the US Open tournament in 1972, she received 15,000 dollars less than the men's top player, Ilie Nastase