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Example sentences for "less severe"

  • Suspension wholly without penance was, however, unusual, for the infallibility of the Inquisition was commonly emphasized by accompanying it with some infliction, more or less severe.

  • Such water when used continually is likely to produce colic from the resulting intestinal irritation, and in aggravated cases paralysis more or less severe is likely to be developed.

  • But even these have their intervals of suffering, more or less severe--"attacks" that better habits would prevent.

  • In intra-medullary tumours the pain is less severe, it is rarely an initial symptom, and is seldom referable to individual nerve roots.

  • In less severe cases in adults, the throat should be sprayed with cocain, and the larynx examined with the mirror; in children, the direct method must be employed.

  • In less severe degrees of damage the paralysis of the most distant parts, e.

  • The condition differs from compression due to middle meningeal hæmorrhage in that it is less severe and is not steadily progressive.

  • Measles is a less severe disease in warm than in cold climates, and, as a rule, we also find the affection more common and more intense in the fall, winter, and spring than in the summer months.

  • In less severe cases it may be seen to be covered uniformly with a thick yellowish or yellowish-white paste.

  • The influence of age upon acute rheumatism is further shown in the fact that the disease is less severe, and less apt to invade the heart, in elderly than in young persons.

  • The cough is less severe, and the breathing less difficult.

  • A distinct chill, attended by nausea and general derangement of the stomach is experienced, followed by febrile symptoms more or less severe.

  • These symptoms increase in the afternoon, and in the evening are followed by a sense of chilliness more or less severe.

  • This disease consists in a looseness of the bowels, generally accompanied with pain in the abdomen, more or less severe.

  • In the smaller sensory trunks it was often evidenced by the occurrence of neuralgic pain, especially liable to be influenced by climatic changes; in the larger, by signs of more or less severe motor, sensory, and trophic disturbance.

  • A fortnight later the pain was much less severe, but varied in degree with the heat of the weather, being worse when cool.

  • In the convict prison his work will be less severe, less crushing.

  • Every one knew his story, and was aware that he had killed his wife, through jealousy, less than a year after his marriage; and that he had given himself up to justice; which had made his punishment much less severe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each sentence; free education; justly proud; less considerable; less conspicuous; less curved; less depressed; less developed; less distinct; less extent; less importance; less irregular; less liable; less likely; less marked; less pubescent; less quantity; less serious; less severe; less then; lesse then; necessary being; passed several; perceive that; thin sheet; this lake