SEVERITY in a Sentence

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1. Allow me to pose several questions.
2. We bought our house several years ago.
3. The artist has several tubes of red paint.
4. The artist retouched the painting several times.
5. She made several interesting points in the article.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEVERITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
severity
 n.  extreme rigor; strictness; rigidity; harshness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity, and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
3  But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
4  This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
6  Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
7  Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
8  A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
9  Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
10  There was one advantage, and only one that I know of, in Mr. Creakle's severity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
11  Sir,' said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, 'I've laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
12  Mr. Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
13  "Cessez," she said with playful severity.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
14  Ever and anon they would beg to be excused from work, or start making complaints of the severity of the barstchina.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
15  Next, hardening his heart, the barin attempted severity.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We bought our house several years ago.
17  The negotiators were meeting in secret for several months before the peace agreement was made public.
18  When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
19  Allow me to pose several questions.
20  There wasn't much vegetarian food as such, although there were several different types of cheese.
21  They have found several fragments of a Roman vase in the area.
22  There were several kids lolling around outside the club.
23  She made several interesting points in the article.
24  The artist retouched the painting several times.
25  The artist has several tubes of red paint.
26  He referred the matter to the Attorney General for possible action against several newspapers.
27  Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
28  The author discovered that the translator had foisted several passages into his book.
29  The table is available in several different heights.
30  They've been engaged in a legal battle with the council for several months.