EXTREMITY in a Sentence

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314 example sentences for EXTREMITY, such as:

1. His views tend towards the extreme.
2. The heat in the desert was extreme.
3. Some of his views seem rather extreme.
4. His political ideas are rather extreme.
5. He took an extreme position on religious matters.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTREMITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
extremity
 n.  end; utmost point; outermost or farthest point or portion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Candide and Cacambo got into the coach, the six sheep flew, and in less than four hours they reached the King's palace situated at the extremity of the capital.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
2  A million regimented assassins, from one extremity of Europe to the other, get their bread by disciplined depredation and murder, for want of more honest employment.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
3  He must watch it, cheek it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
5  Far away, at the extremity, he perceived tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
6  These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into the rock.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
7  He could hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of the sleeping Bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
8  Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
9  Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into the tide.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
10  At the further extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
11  In the second, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that faint light of liberty which men call death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
12  It seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a vague blue light.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
13  He went beyond the bench as far as the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel and passed once more in front of the lovely girl.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
14  An event was taking place at the other extremity of the walk.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
15  When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last resources at the same time.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
16  The heat in the desert was extreme.
17  After three weeks she had got used to the extreme heat.
18  It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme.
19  The extreme discrepancies in this table indicate dramatic opportunities to save more lives by using resources more effectively.
20  In extreme cases, the disease can lead to blindness.
21  At the extreme, some nuclear waste is so radioactive it has to be kept isolated for thousands of years.
22  His political ideas are rather extreme.
23  Some of his views seem rather extreme.
24  He took an extreme position on religious matters.
25  Democrats lashed Republican plans, calling them extreme.
26  This extreme role really depends upon the social researcher deciding whether the means are justified by the ends.
27  Considering that you are no longer involved with this man, your response is a little extreme.
28  His views tend towards the extreme.
29  Beyond the verge of provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my skill.
30  Please take extreme measures to conserve fuel, you know, this winter will be coldest one of recent years.