How to Use extremity in a Sentence

extremity

noun

• The extremity of her grief is impossible to imagine.
• While not yet a trend, any cooling in a hot market would likely start at the extremities.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• Iris pulls herself onto the dock and waits as the power in her extremities slowly returns.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• Officers found two men with non-life threatening injuries to their lower extremities.
  — Alma Fausto, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• The same medication that stopped Breen from dying led to necrosis (tissue death) of his extremities.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 15 Mar. 2017
• This swelling can contribute to feelings of numbness and tingling in your extremities and can also put pressure on nerves in your wrists, back, legs, thighs, and buttocks.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 3 July 2024
• Davis compared the water system to blood vessels — huge arteries close to the heart, and tiny capillaries in the extremities.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2017
• King’s autopsy report showed the boy had bruises and abrasions on his head, torso and extremities but no significant head trauma.
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 May 2017
• Marshall sustained blunt force injuries to his head, neck and chest, as well as pancreatic hemorrhaging and injuries to his extremities.
  — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 5 May 2017
• However, risks of barefoot running include a lack of protection, which may lead to injuries such as puncture wounds, and increased stress on the lower extremities.
  — National Geographic, 4 May 2017
• Scientists have known about polydactyly among these people for years, based on images and skeletal remains showing extremities with extra fingers and toes.
  — Scott S. Warren, National Geographic, 25 July 2016
• When cold water hits our faces, our heart rates slow; under high pressure, the blood vessels in our extremities constrict, sending oxygenated blood where it’s needed most, to our lungs, to our brains.
  — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• That's what Patches O'Houlihan could do, as well as chuck about 1,000 gym balls at your head and extremities and feel not a pang of shame or guilt.
  — Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
• The easiest way to spot lightning damage is to look for signs on the exterior: burn marks and small holes, and even missing bits at the plane's extremities, like the wing tips, according to Boeing.
  — Jordan Golson, Wired News, 10 June 2015
• The girl was hit in the lower extremities, Wright said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
• The court system didn’t cut off the head here, just an extremity.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The Leo new moon on August 4 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
• 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 blood then leaves your extremities and heads for your torso.
  — Lee Judge special To The Star, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The Heat is very familiar with those extremities and McRoberts sitting on the bench.
  — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024