Example Sentences

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Lessening the impact of these unsafe situations that hurt everyone in our communities — housed and unhoused alike — should be at least an aspect of our measure of success on combating homelessness.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Lessening the disappointment of UCLA’s most recent trips has been a diverting game of lost and found.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2019

Lessening the burden of government debt on future generations, he argued, is the right thing to do, as is implementing the structural reforms that will make the British economy more competitive.

From Economist • Mar. 17, 2016

Lessening these dangers, said Herter, would "enhance our national security and reduce the danger of war."

From Time Magazine Archive

They grow to an horizon Where earth and heaven meet; And like a wing that dies on The vague twilight-verges, Many a sinking dream doth fleet Lessening down their secrecies.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis