extreme - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • avoid: The right path is obviously to avoid the extremes.

Adjective modifier

  • opposite: On the negative side however, I veer to the opposite extreme.
  • furthest: The Gilera Nexus takes this philosophy to its furthest extreme.
  • logical: Pursued to a logical extreme, this is disturbing, even terrifying.
  • ridiculous: Excessively low rates can push up asset prices to ridiculous extremes and create bubbles.
  • absurd: At one absurd extreme are audio enthusiasts ( x db down at 20kHz that they can't hear!

Modifies a noun

  • caution: A weather warning is released advising drivers of high sided vehicles to drive with extreme caution.
  • poverty: With only the money that Engels could raise, the Marx family lived in extreme poverty.
  • circumstance: Making children's lives joyful even in extreme circumstances.
  • tiredness: The two major symptoms are joint and muscle pain and an extreme tiredness that won't go away no matter how much you rest.
  • weather: Due to the extreme weather, we start the cruise with boats scattered from Poole to Brighton.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: It was sometimes tempting to discard a proposal which seemed too extreme.

Noun used with modifier

  • temperature: Effects of temperature extremes ( hot and cold ).
  • weather: Each year there were crises - increasing weather extremes, crop failures, outbreaks of violence, things going wrong, problems escalating.

Preposition: of

  • temperature: Single daily readings of a conventional thermometer give little assurance of the extremes of temperature achieved between the readings.
  • weather: Rose Price created a series of south facing compartments - sheltered from the extremes of the weather by the large flowering trees.
  • emotion: What is it in what Jesus ended up saying to us that evoked such extremes of emotions, violence and suppression?
  • pH: This can include extremes of pH, the presence of toxic materials, excess rubble and stone or contamination from organic materials.
  • spectrum: One extreme of the spectrum is general Information Retrieval ( IR ), as represented by web search search engines.

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