How to Use extremity in a Sentence

extremity

noun
  • The extremity of her grief is impossible to imagine.
  • The deer was seen lying down with all its extremities splayed out.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The court system didn’t cut off the head here, just an extremity.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The blood then leaves your extremities and heads for your torso.
    — Lee Judge special To The Star, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the head and joints of the extremities commonly take the brunt of a fall.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The writers extract a great deal of comedic mileage from that extremity, so give them a hand.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For example, your heart rate slows down, and blood-flow to your extremities ramps down.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The bags, tied with loose string around the wrists and ankles, gave him bulbous extremities like paws.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • The nerves in extremities can often heal itself from injuries but can take months to do so.
    — Tj Gibson, azcentral, 9 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Focus on keeping extremities like toes and fingers warm so your kids will last longer on the slopes.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Wear a hat, scarf and gloves or mittens to protect extremities and prevent loss of body heat.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 Jan. 2026
  • All three victims were struck, two in their torsos and one in the lower extremities.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Green sustained injuries to his lower extremities in three of the last four years.
    — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • As blood is draining from your head down to your lower extremities, your body is going to help push it back up.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But some forms of life are remarkably resilient, even to these sorts of extremity.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Yet for Peters, the extremity is the point.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What Wang had cut was the popliteal artery, which supplies blood to the left lower extremity.
    — Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
  • What Wang had cut was the popliteal artery, which supplies blood to the left lower extremity.
    — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
  • They are most often found on the face and buttocks but can also appear on the extremities.
    — Elizabeth Woolley, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Their faces and extremities are bare; the rest of their bulbous bodies are covered in a layer of fur.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Police said the victim was stabbed multiple times on his body and on his extremities.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Areas most prone to frostbite are uncovered skin and the extremities, such as hands and feet.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Another sign of the extremity of the heat wave comes from the atmosphere’s height.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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 next day, two partial sections of lower extremities were found on the shoreline.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025

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