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Example sentences for "but more"

  • But more evidence is necessary before we fully admit that the glands of this saxifrage can absorb, even with ample time allowed, animal matter from the minute insects which they occasionally and accidentally capture.

  • The former cause not only far more prompt and energetic, but more prolonged, inflection than do the latter.

  • The exterior wall appears to have been less lofty, but more solid; and each tower was protected by a quadrangular bulwark.

  • But more to say were needless, since displaid To the whole world has been their history.

  • What these befel Sir Turpin has not said, But more I once in other author read.

  • One grief for slaughtered friends or kindred vents; Some are by sorrows of their own distrest, As wounded or as ill at ease; but more Tremble at mischief which they deem in store.

  • Three months this youth hath tended upon me- But more of that anon.

  • But more of this in a subsequent chapter.

  • In the morning, she left me tired out, but more in love with her than ever.

  • I proved him the truth of what I had said by telling him that opium produced the same results as wine, but more powerfully, and consequently Mahomet ought to have forbidden the use of it.

  • All this was carried out, but more of it anon.

  • Seen in many parts of the country through which the Expedition passed, but more common in the settled districts of the colony.

  • He was a good-natured, harmless little soul, but more like a silver penny than a genius.

  • A bright smile sunned her countenance; Helen, observing it, smiled too, but more thoughtfully.

  • Irene sat with bowed head, her lips compressed; she smiled again, but more faintly.

  • I'm troubled about it, but more on his account than mine.

  • I have received, and tasted of your present; which is a 'tres grand vin', but more cordial to the stomach than pleasant to the palate.

  • If you can bear your part well in such a company, it is extremely right to be in it sometimes, and you will be but more esteemed in other companies, for having a place in that.

  • I advise you to read some of them with care; commerce being a very essential part of political knowledge in every country; but more particularly in that which owes all its riches and power to it.

  • But more of a home than was that grander house, Mr. Manners.

  • But more than a month had passed, he had not become her possessor--and now for the first time there entered his mind a doubt as to having given her a religion!

  • In the meantime Mr. Redbrook looked on with an expression of approval which was (to Austen) distinctly pleasant, but more or less mystifying.

  • Yes," said Cynthia, but more faintly, and yet with a certain delicious fright as she glanced at him shyly.

  • During the open day, but more especially in the evening, these birds may be seen in every direction standing frequently by pairs on the hillock near their burrows.

  • They inhabit burrows which they sometimes make between fragments of lava, but more generally on level patches of the soft sandstone-like tuff.

  • But more infrequently, as the days went on, could she secure Dick for an hour on Sabbath evening in the quiet, sweet little nook of the professor's dining-room.

  • But more important in enforcing discipline was the hope of reward.

  • He was so often held by his work, but more often by his attendance upon Iola, for between Iola and him there had grown up and ripened rapidly an intimacy that Margaret regarded with distrust and fear.

  • She looked to me," said Martha, "as if she was afraid to go on, but more afraid to stop.

  • From the hilltop the view was much the same, but more extensive.

  • She spoke then, not as if she had meant to, but more as if the words were involuntarily forced from her by shock.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became evident; but afterwards; but can; but have eternal life; but have everlasting life; but how; but instead; but just; but look; but made; but owing; but perhaps; but she was not; but should; but since; but suddenly; but too; but who; but will; but with; butter sauce; buttered dish; flowers yellow; great secret; knowing that; primitive man