How to Use to a greater/lesser degree/extent in a Sentence

to a greater/lesser degree/extent

idiom
  • If anything, maybe that locks him in to a greater extent.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2023
  • This may also work, to a lesser degree, on the demand side.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The players teams will call most about are Jonathan Kuminga and, to a lesser degree, Moses Moody.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • News of the talks sparked immediate backlash on the right in Israel and, to a lesser degree, in the U.S.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
  • And to a lesser degree, but Pineapple Express kind of feels like an ‘80s movie.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • There’s plenty of time spent on the three main brothers — Kevin, Kerry and David — and to a lesser degree on Mike.
    — Ed Symkus, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But the Hotline believes the Huskies, to a greater extent than the Wildcats, could have done more despite tricky timing.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Flacco showed it and to a lesser extent, so did Winston.
    — Jason Lloyd, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That would be Wes, and to a lesser extent Mrs. Langsberry.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
  • That is what Texas and to a lesser extent Florida are trying to do.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Casas, who is a minus-6 in defensive runs saved, will, too — though to a lesser extent than Hernández.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • As Earth turns, the gravitational pull between it and the moon, and to a lesser degree the sun, creates ocean tides.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Kamala the prosecutor is present there, and, to a lesser extent, so is Kamala the meme.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • After all, the Big 12 is, to a greater extent than its Power Four peers, the league of opportunity.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Other people’s drama is the foundation of the internet, and it could be mined to a greater extent on late night, frankly.
    — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Didn’t retailers rely on discounts to a greater extent than even in 2022?
    — Indy Guha, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Ford got a big boost slashing prices, particularly on the Mach-E and, to a lesser degree, on the Lightning.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That same void exists, to a lesser degree, in the music industry.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Red Lobster is also going through it, but to a lesser extent.
    — Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The walled Old City is only a third of a square mile in size, and few places evoke to a greater extent the literal jostling of one Abrahamic faith against another.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But what was happening behind the scenes is what would really send Great Britain – and to a lesser extent, the world – back to the days of Britpop mania.
    — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • More broadly, Thomas, to a greater extent even than Cannon, suggested that the road to tyranny runs through Smith’s office.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 16 July 2024
  • But while the Dodgers and to a lesser extent the Diamondbacks and Giants made splashy offseason moves, the Padres pretty much stood pat.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • If a full co-ord is not your jam, then there is also a DunKings costume inspired by the boy band outfits just to a lesser extent.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Much of the evidence concerned breast cancer and to a lesser extent prostate cancer.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • But for those who pay close attention, new global tax statutes came up to a greater degree than expected.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The company’s share price is correlated to the price of gold , and also copper to a lesser degree.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Science shows that light (and avoiding light) and, to a lesser extent, melatonin, are the only things that shift your internal clock.
    — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Milwaukee’s north, northwest and, to a lesser extent, near-south sides, continue to bear the brunt of the city's violence.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But this still means that most paper and plastic bags wind up in a landfill or, to a lesser extent, in an incinerator.
    — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025

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