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Extremity in sentence

136 examples of Extremity in a sentence

So imagine the little 200-gram rat attached at the extremity of this 200-kilo robot, but the rat does not feel the robot.
If we go to the dictionary, it says, "It's the lower extremity of a leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking" That's the traditional definition.
And they happen, on average, to have a certain unique physiology: legs that are very long and very thin at their extremity, and this is because they have their ancestry at very low latitude in a very hot and dry climate, and an evolutionary adaptation to that is limbs that are very long and very thin at the extremity for cooling purposes.
It's the same reason that a radiator has long coils, to increase surface area compared to volume to let heat out, and because the leg is like a pendulum, the longer and thinner it is at the extremity, the more energy-efficient it is to swing.
Those holes you see there are very filtered-down, watered-down versions of the extremity of the diatomic structures.
We don't need the extremity of violence like that we can use our vivid imagination of what they went through.
I tried to get my friends to finish this extremity's awful awful piece of crap... To no aval.. no one could finish it.. Takes boredom to a whole new level.
Jill is nothing other than a psychopath, blatantly unaware of the extremity of her behaviour.
The second season even surpasses the first in extremity, if not in humour.
I compare almost all new horror movies to this one, and few come close to the extremity and violence of this film.
From every angle, the extremity of this state of affairs – in which those with access to credit do not need it, and those who do cannot get it – is highly problematic.
It was too much this time; the day was coming when the miserable, pushed to extremity, would deal justice.
The position of the soldiers was becoming critical, for they had received strict orders not to make use of their weapons until the last extremity.
At this end of the gallery the gang formed a sort of advance guard at the very extremity of the mine, now without communication with the other stalls.
It was an immense sadness, the misery of generations, the extremity of grief into which life can fall.
"You must," he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even to the very extremity of the landscape, "hold the bottle perpendicularly on the table, and after the strings are cut, press up the cork with little thrusts, gently, gently, as indeed they do seltzer-water at restaurants."
The effort that he was imposing on himself to appear cured in the eyes of Mathilde absorbed all his spiritual strength, he remained rooted beside the Marechale like a barely animate being; his eyes even, as in the extremity of physical suffering, had lost all their fire.
The house was of stone, long, low, and with a small wing at each extremity.
The apartment occupied by the traveler was the wing at the extremity of the building, opposite to the parlor in which the family ordinarily assembled; and it seems that Caesar had established a regular system of espionage, with a view to the safety of his young master.
Lawton was already in the saddle, eying the opposite extremity of the valley with the eagerness of expectation, and crying to the musicians, in tones but little lower than their own,-"Sound away, my lads, and let these Englishmen know that the Virginia horse are between them and the end of their journey."
The gathering mists of the evening had begun to darken the valley, as the detachment of Lawton made its reappearance, at its southern extremity.
The evening sun would frequently leave him at one extremity of the county, and the morning find him at the other.
The grave was soon filled; a rough stone, placed at either extremity, marked its position, and the turf, whose faded vegetation was adapted to the fortunes of the deceased, covered the little hillock with the last office of seemliness.
At other times, the advanced guards were withdrawn to the northern extremity of the country, and, as has been shown, the intermediate country was abandoned to the ravages of the miscreants who plundered between both armies, serving neither.
He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result.
I was now confounded, and driven to such an extremity as the like was never known; at least not to me.
He took my carriage very ill, and indeed he might well do so, for at last I refused to bed with him, and carrying on the breach upon all occasions to extremity, he told me once he thought I was mad, and if I did not alter my conduct, he would put me under cure; that is to say, into a madhouse.
Here I also soon understood that he was at the last extremity, which made me almost at the last extremity too, to have a true account.
I was very loth to dispose of them for a trifle, as the poor unhappy thieves in general do, who, after they have ventured their lives for perhaps a thing of value, are fain to sell it for a song when they have done; but I was resolved I would not do thus, whatever shift I made, unless I was driven to the last extremity.
He told me he was very sorry for what had happened, and that it was to testify the willingness he had to make all possible reparation that he had appointed this meeting; that he hoped I would not carry things to extremity, which might be not only too great a loss to him, but might be the ruin of his business and shop, in which case I might have the satisfaction of repaying an injury with an injury ten times greater; but that I would then get nothing, whereas he was willing to do me any justice that was in his power, without putting himself or me to the trouble or charge of a suit at law.
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