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Example sentences for "something more"

  • The great reunion was to be something more than a mere banquet.

  • A second letter to Twichell, something more than a month later, shows a somewhat improved condition in the Clemens household.

  • When am I to be something more to you than Mr. Granger?

  • I felt sure now that she was something more than an ordinary society woman.

  • That there is no use in lifting people out of the treadmill --and removing the terror of poverty unless you can give them something more--than I have got.

  • And this man had given him something more.

  • However, Philip has given us something more to work on.

  • I'd do something more, something personal, if I could.

  • Turn to improved life, and you find conversation in all its forms the medium of something more than an idle pleasure; indeed, a very active agent in circulating and forming the opinions, tastes, and feelings of a whole people.

  • He has resisted all my efforts to have him change the house into something more modern, even when, for the sake of your mother, I offered to do it at my own expense.

  • To him, the huge buttress which runs down from the Mönch is something more than an irregular pyramid, purple with white patches at the bottom and pure white at the top.

  • But when we talk of knowing Greek and Roman antiquity, for instance, which is the knowledge people have called the humanities, I for my part mean a knowledge which is something more than a superficial humanism, mainly decorative.

  • Now that, it seems to me, is something more.

  • However, the spit resting upon the supports proved to be something more than a mere rod.

  • Your wife is just going to tell me something more; but it will soon be finished and then I'll come and bring it.

  • That is, the notion that you can do something more with a criminal than punish him; and that society has not done its duty when it has built a sufficient number of schools for one class, or of decent jails for another.

  • I wish I had thought of something more insulting to say.

  • I hope--I hope I may yet do something more worthy of the appreciation lavished on me.

  • A keen observer might have detected in our repeated singing of O Canaan, sweet Canaan, I am bound for the land of Canaan, something more than a hope of reaching heaven.

  • I therefore soon learned to regard her as something more akin to a mother, than a slaveholding mistress.

  • Strictly speaking the girl was called 'The Little Narcissus,' but as you say, it may be something more than a coincidence that the man who insulted her, is murdered whilst her brother is in London.

  • It's something more than a coincidence, don't you think, Tarling?

  • Even nature uses several means to one intent, in order to do something more fittingly: as two eyes for seeing; and the same can be observed in other matters.

  • Therefore, although this human nature is a kind of individual in the genus of substance, it has not its own personality, because it does not exist separately, but in something more perfect, viz.

  • Further, necessity is induced by something more powerful.

  • Hence the hand of Socrates, although it is a kind of individual, is not a person, because it does not exist by itself, but in something more perfect, viz.

  • There is something more than a mere attempt at a cave here,' he said.

  • Something more is needed than a correct outward life.

  • All this holds good before the bar of conscience, but it may be otherwise in the courts where something more than personal convictions, something more akin to scientific knowledge, is required.

  • It is always hard to do right; blame Adam and Eve for it, and think of something more practicable.

  • If a right is a right, it is not extinguished by being violated and if justice, is something more than a mere sound, it must protect all rights whether sinned against or not.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something 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:
    farm hand; first message; fourth inch; golden star; knew more; like himself; might know; plain that; scanty supply; something about; something akin; something analogous; something better; something different; something doing; something external; something for; something held; something quite; something real; something resembling; something similar; something that; something very; thou also; when nearly