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Example sentences for: lessen

How can you use “lessen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In addition, they say, reduced government borrowing will also lessen competition with private companies for funds, thereby lowering interest rates.
How long does it take for the hurt to lessen?
It requires a load of patience and I am principled against showing any impatience to little folks lest it should lessen my influence."
The real immorality, of course, is failing to do whatever is possible to lessen illness and disease.
The Washington Post said that Hsing-Hsing's almost human personality should lessen the "sense of apartness that causes us to treat so many animals as a commodity, or a nuisance--in either case as 'things' to be killed or driven away."