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Example sentences for "extent that"

  • Her confidence in her safety, confidence which was certainly not feigned, worked upon my feelings to such an extent that I would have been ashamed to take any advantage of it.

  • This piece of extravagance on the part of the monk exasperated me to such an extent that I felt a very strong inclination to thrash him.

  • The ardour of our mutual kisses, given at first under the auspices of friendship, was not long in exciting our senses to such an extent that in less than a quarter of an hour I had nothing more to desire.

  • That impure and always injurious metal had weakened my mind to such an extent that I had become almost besotted, and I fancied that until then my judgment had been insane.

  • But Yoosoof and his class who traded in black ivory had depopulated it to such an extent that scarce a human being was to be seen all the way.

  • What is that which is identical with the body to such an extent that to its command a movement always answers?

  • I have no schemes I need justify before myself, and yet all these reflections have stirred my soul to such an extent that I had to leave off writing.

  • I was told that at one time he prayed night and day, knelt down in the street when he passed a church, and was carried away by his religious fervor to such an extent that he was looked upon by some as a madman, by others as a saint.

  • These instruments have been improved to such an extent that it is now possible to carry on wireless conversation under water between one submarine and another for a considerable distance.

  • She wrote wittily, and her letters interested me to such an extent that I gave a formal promise to journey to Milan, if it were only for the sake of seeing her.

  • Just then Irene came in with her father, who had aged to such an extent that I should never have known him in the street.

  • In return, my poor brother became enamoured of her to such an extent that he ended by becoming her slave.

  • However, the champagne punch excited them to such an extent that at last they made me share their transports.

  • Just after setting up the instrument, the wind freshened to such an extent that it was impossible to do anything, so we descended very wet and muddy to the Shack, having had a rough passage.

  • In going over to the meteorological screen one morning I saw a giant petrel flapping about in the tussock, gorged to such an extent that it could not rise.

  • The waste products have meanwhile accumulated to such an extent that, if they are suddenly stirred up, they are apt to produce a severe headache or a bilious attack.

  • The state of the nervous system alters the circulation in the body to such an extent that it is apt to cause the feeling of illness, if not illness itself.

  • The man who is habitually late in the mornings is apt to find his work accumulate to such an extent that by the time he ought to be finishing his day’s work he feels it has become a heavy burden upon his shoulders.

  • If we put water into a vial and drop regularly upon it some fluid that evaporates readily it will extract the heat from the vial and the water in it to such an extent that in a short time the water will be frozen.

  • The hand holding the match was trembling; the weak flame fluttered to such an extent that he was denied momentarily a glimpse of the owner of the hand.

  • A diseased mind which spoke the naked truth, which caught at no deception, which was tormented by its own gnawings and cravings to such an extent that it had lost the function of suspecting.

  • From whiskey they passed to even more interesting matters, and Mr. Prohack, for the first time, began to learn how the other half lives, to such an extent that he thought he had better turn on the lamp over his head.

  • Eve and Sissie were prodigious in superlatives to such an extent that Mr. Prohack began to fear for Mr. Softly Bishop's capacity to assimilate the cruder forms of flattery.

  • The suddenness of her attack amazed him to such an extent that he did not take the trouble to contradict her.

  • Neither of the two first Gospels, as we have them, complies with the conditions of Papias' description to such an extent that we can claim Papias as a witness to them.

  • The early Christian writers copied each other to an extent that we should hardly be prepared for.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black ants; classical culture; common ground; could feel; desist from; discourse about; each house; extent that; farther north; federal union; fortified place; frequently observed; greased baking; great part; know the; many hundreds; much oxygen; noble captain; our own little star; representative democracy; special counsel; strange kind