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Example sentences for "neither more nor less"

  • Before us, at some distance, rose a strange conical hill, rough and shaggy, which appeared to be neither more nor less than an immense assemblage of the same kind of rocks which lay upon the moor.

  • The defence of Edwards is neither more nor less than a play on the term evil.

  • Then he turned to Maestro Bernardino, and said: “Look you how Nature has taken precisely what she wanted, neither more nor less.

  • It was just like passing through the Zodiac, neither more nor less; for one of them had the face of the lion, another of the scorpion, a third of the crab.

  • The sun without his rays appeared to me to be a bath of the purest molten gold, neither more nor less.

  • The ermine is neither more nor less than a stoat in winter dress; but there are several varieties of it--some that turn to brown in summer, while another kind retains its snow-white covering throughout all the year.

  • Indeed, after all that has been said by anatomical naturalists, we might hazard assertion of the belief, that the camelopard is neither more nor less than a species of wild camel.

  • I am neither more nor less than I have represented myself.

  • It's what will happen to you, neither more nor less.

  • Those same Twelve Verses,—neither more nor less,—are observed to constitute one integral Lection.

  • My friend, since you ask me to give you an account, I will tell you that the bishopric of Vannes is worth about twenty thousand livres a year, neither more nor less.

  • It is certain that we must sell fish, neither more nor less, like true fishermen.

  • Raoul was occupied in making him describe the voyage to England, and Grimaud had related it in all its details, with a limited number of gestures and eight words, neither more nor less.

  • For an organized being, Nature is only organization, neither more nor less.

  • The whole thing's a nightmare, neither more nor less!

  • This to me spells pleasure in capitals all the way through: plain appreciation, pure and simple, neither more nor less.

  • It is neither more nor less than a bellows, but of a simpler construction than that used by the cook.

  • My dear child, what I have just told you is the history of the hiccup--the history of the hiccup, neither more nor less.

  • Send the thermometer to his mouth for information, and it will only mark down thirty-seven degrees; neither more nor less than in the mouth of a rice-eater!

  • However unlikely it may seem to you, Mr. Polwarth, I really do share the common weakness of wanting to be taken exactly for what I am, neither more nor less.

  • Neither more nor less,' I answered, 'than that he is a murderer!

  • I hope I ought to be just what I am, neither more nor less," replied Polwarth.

  • This last phrase would have expressed what Epikurus aimed at, neither more nor less.

  • The Quantum a yard is neither more nor less Quantum than that called a foot.

  • An individual man is as much Essence as an individual horse, neither more nor less.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neither more nor less" 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:
    common method; cotton fabrics; crushing defeat; declare unto; early times; either wholly; leagues from; long stay; neither could; neither did; neither doth; neither good nor evil; neither have; neither indeed; neither more nor less; neither shall; neither shall the children; neither should; neither slavery nor involuntary; neither the; neither would; paper bags; shaking hands; then chief; whose term; would want