Examples of more in a Sentence Adjective I felt more pain after the procedure, not less. The new engine has even more power. You like more sugar in your tea than I do.

You use more to indicate that there is a greater amount of something than before or than average, or than something else. You can use 'a little', 'a lot ', 'a bit ', ' far ', and 'much' in front of more.

The More surname appeared 4,432 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname More.

The shot hurt more than I expected. This cake is pretty good, but I'd like it (even) more if it had chocolate frosting. It happens more often than it used to.

More or less means ‘mostly’, ‘nearly’ or ‘approximately’. We use it in mid position (between the subject and main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb).

MORE definition: in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number. See examples of more used in a sentence.

(used with a pl. verb) A greater or additional number of persons or things: I opened only two bottles but more were in the refrigerator.

When you want more of something, you don't have enough. This is a comparative word that has to do with addition. It's also the opposite of "less."

Greater in amount, extent, number, or degree: the following noun being in effect a partitive genitive: as, more land; more light; more money; more courage. In addition; additional: the adjective being before or after the noun, or in the predicate.