How to Use extremity in a Sentence

extremity

noun

• The extremity of her grief is impossible to imagine.
• The girl was hit in the lower extremities, Wright said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
• The Leo new moon on 4th August is the time to embrace the good and the bad, the sweet and the sour, and find a middle ground between these extremities.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2024
• Police found the child, a boy about 8 years old, who was shot in the lower extremities.
  — Piper McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• The bags, tied with loose string around the wrists and ankles, gave him bulbous extremities like paws.
  — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
• The writers extract a great deal of comedic mileage from that extremity, so give them a hand.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• The sheer, somatic extremity of such a scene throws the player back out of the body of their avatar and onto their couch.
  — Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
• The deer was seen lying down with all its extremities splayed out.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Stephen’s judgment, and the extremity of the language in which it was delivered, proved hard to shake.
  — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2021
• The median nerve, which starts at the shoulder and extends down to the tips of the fingers, is one of the major nerves of the upper extremities.
  — Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 3 June 2024
• Another sign of the extremity of the heat wave comes from the atmosphere’s height.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2020
• So there’s a lot of pressure on the lower extremities right?
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
• Snacking on a bowl of almonds can reroute blood flow away from your brain, heart, and extremities, says Long.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 14 Aug. 2024
• If the bite is on an extremity, try to avoid moving it so the circulation of the venom may be slowed.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
• And the welding worked — no extremities have been stolen in the nearly 20 years since, according to the Star archives.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2024
• All three victims were struck, two in their torsos and one in the lower extremities.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• The most impressive records are south, because this historic event was less about the extremity of the airmass, and more about how far south the core was.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2021
• Green sustained injuries to his lower extremities in three of the last four years.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• They are most often found on the face and buttocks but can also appear on the extremities.
  — Elizabeth Woolley, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2024
• Focus on keeping extremities like toes and fingers warm so your kids will last longer on the slopes.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
• And much like the heel is the extremity of the body, ekev can also refer to the redemptive period that will come at the end of days (ikveta d’meshicha).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2022
• What Lee is after in both the karaoke and curry episodes is extremity, pushing oneself to be more fully part of the world.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2021
• All of this helps to explain why so many scientists were aghast at the extremity of the vision Wallace-Wells laid out in 2017.
  — Kyle Paoletta, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• And much like the heel is the extremity of the body, ekev can also refer to the redemptive period that will come at the end of days (acharit ha-yamim).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Della Jette died of a gunshot wound of the torso, the office staff said, and Sterling Jette’s death was from gunshot wounds of the torso and extremities.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Joy, extremity, and cheesiness—not to mention queerness—are the mood.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
• Possibly there were, in the extremity in some of the responses, some clues in how to keep evolving [the production].
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• First among those is the habit of seeing Derry not as a remote extremity of Northern Ireland, but as a hub of the whole island’s north-west.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• These hormones signal the tiny blood vessels in the skin to constrict, allowing blood to flow away from the extremities and to the body’s vital organs.
  — Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Medications: Some drugs, like those used to treat high blood pressure, lead to water retention and extremity swelling.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024