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Idioms and Phrases
Increasingly, to a steadily growing extent or degree. For example, As night came on, we were getting more and more worried , or More and more I lean toward thinking he is right . [c. 1200]Example Sentences
As a result, more and more Australians, regardless of where they live, are delaying or going without the care they need.
But if ice shelves are lost, the glaciers behind can speed up, depositing more and more ice into the ocean and raising sea levels worldwide.
Ms Lewis said she faces "huge demand" from patients wishing to register with an NHS practice as "more and more practices leave the health service", but her surgery is at capacity.
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years.
"It was really scary, as it got more and more intense," she says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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